Overnight parking going places?
My first post here :) Not new to camping (travel trailer) as when I was younger, the fam... five of us (with a handicapped brother) and a dog in an early 70's 22' Terry...would go camping for two t...
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We are retired, and I'm almost never in a hurry. Try to keep daily drives down to under five hours per day.
Once did 612 one day and 498 the next. If it had not been for my baby sister's funeral, I would not have done that. Wife insisted I stop at a place where we could put the slides out and I could get a good night rest. Well, 6 hours.
We can't pull out slides on both sides and not unhook in a Walmart parking lot or truck stop. Too wide at 14 ft for a truck stop, and I've seen slides hit by DA kids in Walmart parking lots.
Almost always I can find an RV park with pull-thrus for a one-night stop on long trips. We've been coast to coast, Key West to Blaine, WA, Maine to San Diego - 46 states we've stayed in at least 2 nights. We take long trips, just at a slower pace than many, and I think we enjoy them more.
It is not difficult to find places to stop. One of those experience things in RVing. In three years of regular travel, you will look back and wonder why you ever asked.
The town, a northeast Dallas suburb, where we had our last S/B home has an ordnance about no overnight parking/ sleeping in a vehicle. Does not say RV, but anything, from your car, to truckers, to RVs. There are signs at Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, even the First Baptist parking lot. Might be one reason why there are no truck stops in that town.
No 'wally docking' places are most often near larger cities, and I've found them in tourist areas. I think, could be wrong, Moab, UT does not allow overnight stops for sleep except in a campground.
Once did 612 one day and 498 the next. If it had not been for my baby sister's funeral, I would not have done that. Wife insisted I stop at a place where we could put the slides out and I could get a good night rest. Well, 6 hours.
We can't pull out slides on both sides and not unhook in a Walmart parking lot or truck stop. Too wide at 14 ft for a truck stop, and I've seen slides hit by DA kids in Walmart parking lots.
Almost always I can find an RV park with pull-thrus for a one-night stop on long trips. We've been coast to coast, Key West to Blaine, WA, Maine to San Diego - 46 states we've stayed in at least 2 nights. We take long trips, just at a slower pace than many, and I think we enjoy them more.
It is not difficult to find places to stop. One of those experience things in RVing. In three years of regular travel, you will look back and wonder why you ever asked.
The town, a northeast Dallas suburb, where we had our last S/B home has an ordnance about no overnight parking/ sleeping in a vehicle. Does not say RV, but anything, from your car, to truckers, to RVs. There are signs at Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, even the First Baptist parking lot. Might be one reason why there are no truck stops in that town.
No 'wally docking' places are most often near larger cities, and I've found them in tourist areas. I think, could be wrong, Moab, UT does not allow overnight stops for sleep except in a campground.
