Date:         Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:02:12 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sleepiing/Rest stops.
In-Reply-To:  <46675EF2.4000809@gmail.com>
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It's really too bad. I've yet to use anything like that because I have yet
to make any long trips - however I always thought that the Wally World
policy was a great Customer Service/ PR policy for them. Like others have
said though eventually all good things get ruined but the inconsiderate
abusers. It's too bad they couldn't enforce certain hours. You know after
9:00pm and be out by 8:00am. Then again that would cost money somehow.

On 6/6/07, vanagonvw <vanagonvw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>



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Thanks,

Jeff
90' Carat (It's Blue, It's Beautiful. Now sporting a very unstylish brown
interior taken from the parts bus)
86' (We call this one Parts)
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