For a little under a year, Adam John Halvorsen and his girlfriend, Angela Del Castillo, have been living in her minivan on the streets of Southern California.
“We know how to blend in,” Halvorsen said. “Just don’t look homeless, you know?”
The couple drives around constantly to avoid citations, safety risks, and scrutiny from neighbors. The anxiety has taken its toll.
“You can never fall all the way asleep,” Del Castillo said, fighting back tears. “The words are hard to find, because it’s so hard. People don’t understand.”
Halvorsen was a combat engineer in the U.S. Army in the 1990s. He is eligible for VA benefits, which allowed him to join a new pilot program on the West L.A. VA campus trying to reach veterans like himself who sleep in their cars.
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