# Van lifer goes missing on cross country trip with fiancee **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-lifer-goes-missing-on-cross-country-trip-with-fiancee/950604 "2021-09-13T13:48:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1161
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-lifer-goes-missing-on-cross-country-trip-with-fiancee/950604/1161 "2021-10-22T04:15:52Z")
@kayaker posted recently about a dead deer very close to his home that stank, but within a week was picked clean. I believe he’s nowhere near the tropics. > [@Help dealing with decomposition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/48): > > Amazing Update On Sunday we were working on a household project. My gf walked away for a bit, then returned all excited. She took me to see the dead deer and it was almost entirely gone!! There were ribs and the skull with some flesh, sitting in a pool of black goo. Billions of maggots. No odor whatsoever. The wet, cool weather? Coyotes, vultures, flies? All it took was a week! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/van-lifer-goes-missing-on-cross-country-trip-with-fiancee/950604)._