Date:         Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:27:14 -0600
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Subject:      Re: Sleepiing/Rest stops.
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Bryant Baecht wrote:
> I like to stay over at the Walmarts for the same reasons you noted. So I don't know if that
> Walmart didn't allow overnighters, or what, but I wound up going to a state
> camp ground and having another adventure there.

More and more Walmarts seem to be refusing overnighters. Probably lots
of reasons, but a big one is the cities themselves, creating ordinances
against such things. On one side, its a bummer, but on the other, hey,
the way people sometimes use the parking lots, it does become a bit of a
circus. At least the ones I have seen.  Like most good ideas, its a
victim of sheer numbers, and cities do not want to see Walmarts becoming
campgrounds. I cannot blame them, but I also hate to see it come to an
end.  Plus, campgrounds in the cities, seem to lobby pretty hard against
it as well....

It used to be just a place to stop and crash at night. There are 14
walmarts within 20 miles of my house... (yikes!) and the lots were
becoming full of campers, early in the day, just like a campground
filling up, so folks started to complain, and now many of  them refuse
overnight stays.... Too bad, because those who were showing up early in
those titanic, overbearing RVs, could just as well have parked anywhere
in the lot, or in any public park for the day, and then 'shown up' at
the walmart later in the evening, as if they just wanted a place to
crash for the night, instead of revealing themselves to be on the "See
American for free, from WalMart" plan. Kind of ruined it, by abuse, imo