Asphalt RVing may or may not be someone's preferred style, but it would have been awfully handy since we arrived after dark a day early for our Thousand Trails reservation. Yes, you can still boondock outside the park. That is where we are, now. But we would have preferred to avoid coming into an unfamiliar area in the dark after a good rain and not being sure if we would get stuck in the mud.
I don't blame Walmart or the city or the police. I blame the family of wackobirds that caused the trouble. I love this area, with its awesome scenery and wide open spaces, and would love to have a permanent base here eventually. But I am not blind to the fact that those same wide open spaces can allow a type of disconnection from society that positively encourages any slight eccentricity to grow and blossom into full blown nutbaggery.