I’ve never stopped in a parking lot overnight. I have stopped in rest stops and truck stops to nap for a couple of hours on long solo drives. I don’t like rest stops even though I’ve never had a bad experience in them. But I’ve been annoyed a couple of times with deadbeats. The most common story is my mother is in a hospital in CA and I ran out of gas or broke down and need some help to get there. So I give then the number of a state agency that will sometimes help people in that situation and send them on their way.But some rest stops do have security and they would probably be OK.
I lean toward truck stops myself, they can be noisier but little keeps me awake anyway. And most casinos I’m familiar with have security patrols, another option. I agree with at least one other poster, I avoid cities like the plague, I sort of consider them target rich environments.;)
