Wildcamping

I am a great believer in Wildcamping or Boondocking  as it is known in the states. Up here in scotland we have the right of Access, which means you can go anywhere with reason, and at the end of August they are removing No overnight parking from lay byes as these notices are illegal.
I have found Google Earth street view a great help in finding spots off the road, i research an area I am travelling in and then go into Google Earth find the area and the road I intend to travel along at street view and follow the road, looking out for likely spots.

 

Also I find the net a great help, I belong to Motorhome forums and you can get some useful tips from them, one of my favourites is the Wildcamping Forum here in the UK. One of the first wildcamping spots I tried was the Culbin forest up between Forres and Nairn in the northeast of Scotland in my old Motorhome Kaycee a 1978 Ford Transit Mark 2 with a CI on the back.
The dog in the picture is my very good friend and fellow traveler Tara now a 7 year old labradoodle.
We spent four days out there in the forest no hookup only a 110 amp hour battery charged by a 20w solar panel. That old Motorhome taught me so many tricks on maintenance and camping.
We had no running hot water just a couple of hand pumps to pump the water up from a 5 gallon water container, lucky for us there was a toilet block in the forest for visitors that I used to get water from.
   This was way back in 2010 about 3 months before I was struck down by a heart attack, which I have got over now after having 3 Stents put in.
Sheila was away at her Country Music festival with friends that July, all the campsites were full up as it was in the middle of the summer.
We had a couple of motorhomes pull in there for a night, one was a big German motorhome and the other was a Van conversion driven by a lady on her own.