Hotel rooms all booked?

[BOOKWRITER]

I travel everywhere with my hammock. Once I had to be in a city for a convention, but all the hotel rooms were full.
So I rented a U-haul truck for $19 and change, slung my hammock in the back of the truck and slept well.
Bathoom? I picked up a used laundry soap bottle and cut the spout out of it. In the morning, I watered the bushes.
Shower, change. Rather than use a gym, I paid a maid at a motel (tres dollares) and used the shower in a vacated room. Shaved. Fresh as a daisy, made the convention and sold my outdoor books to dealers.
[moderator's edit]

Back of a U-Haul is #1 if you travel a lot.

[Myteathor]

LOL i just yesterday iam driving north from florida to pa and I went by a storage unit and told my wife we could sling hammocks up in one of those for the night, she laughed and i told her a similar story about me and a buddy needed a room for the night while going to a concert and we rented a uhaul for the 3 minute drive to the concert and camped in the back of it! we didnt even register fuel loss and it only had 6 miles on the odometer when returned. We thought it was a genius move that no one else would think of until i just saw your post! Nice move! lol

[WV]

Love that story. Also, I'm seriously contemplating painting the soles of my work boots. (It's in the book, folks. Worth looking for.)

[JTXR]

Great solution when you could not get a hotel, heck you just go there to sleep and shower anyway and you saved a few bucks too.

[Fibby]

I'll have to remember that next time I have to travel for work.

[dimeotane]

So I rented a U-haul truck for $19 and change, slung my hammock in the back of the truck and slept well.
Back of a U-Haul is #1 if you travel a lot.

I'll bet the trucks might even have spots in the body of the truck to hang from built right in? That's something I figured the rental locker might not have, is load bearing support brackets high up on the wall.

It's a really creative and interesting idea. However, I'm curious if you're able to lock the back of the truck from the inside? I know they can be locked from outside the truck. But I wouldn't want to have some thugs open it up to find me sleeping. Could be a rather stressful situation to say the least.

[Swingblade]

Wow, what a brilliant idea.

[Law Dawg (ret)]

I know they can be locked from outside the truck. But I wouldn't want to have some thugs open it up to find me sleeping. Could be a rather stressful situation to say the least.

And if someone wanted to me mean they could lock it from the outside. I'd rather they open the door then I could introduce them to my "little friend" (Scar Face, Al Pachino) rather than get locked in.