Wal Mart parking?

beemerphile1 wrote:
Lots of RVers have their own made up rules about Walmart, they are not Walmart's rules.

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alid wrote:
wal-mart shooting

This is why I don't do wal-mart.. I know this area... it is a small town. Campers in the parking lot witnessed the shooting. No reason.. someone just walked up to a car and blasted the person sitting it it 3 times in the face! Then the shooter went home and OD'd on drugs.

I don't care how much you say that they have security and cameras.. there is no way that either of those things helped this guy. The shooting was within eye-shot of the campers in the parking lot.. and it sounds like there were quite a few.

Yeah, things like that never happen in campgrounds........

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140320/articles/140329990

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140526/2-men-shot-during-early-morning-campground-confrontation

No Wally World camping for us.find a camp is to much fun.and have learned to manage it that way.a bit more safety at the cg. Now it's all happy-camping

And whacked out druggies shooting people in the face is definitely exclusive to Wal-Mart. That is a good thing to know.
Not for nothing,but these Wal-Mart threads come up quite often. Why don't you people that don't like Wal-Mart overniting just STFU!
There are a myriad of reasons that folks stay at Wal Mart and not a single one of them is any of your business.
I have the right to stay any where I please and the entity that controls the property has the right to give me permission or not.
The day you start paying my taxes or having sex with me,I may take your opinion into consideration.

wal-mart shooting

This is why I don't do wal-mart.. I know this area... it is a small town. Campers in the parking lot witnessed the shooting. No reason.. someone just walked up to a car and blasted the person sitting it it 3 times in the face! Then the shooter went home and OD'd on drugs.

I don't care how much you say that they have security and cameras.. there is no way that either of those things helped this guy. The shooting was within eye-shot of the campers in the parking lot.. and it sounds like there were quite a few.

In my 44 years of traveling around the USA I have never had staying at a Wal-Mart or any other parking lot as my only option and it will always be the very last place other than an active landfill dump where I would choose to spend the night.

There are zero advantages to staying at a public parking lot and I always know in advance where I am going to be the following day and what my options are for spending the night. If I can make it to a city where there is a Wal-Mart than I can make it to any one of a hundred places in the area where I can stop and sleep.

There is a misguided herd mentality that drives people to think that Wal-Mart is the only free place to safely spend the night with an RV when nothing could be further from reality.

Dustytuu wrote:

Flame suit on here.

You happy now? :B

When traveling from point A to point B we stay at Walmart or truck stops that have rv parking. I always put some of my slides out. I always ask permission and ask where they would like me to park when staying at a Walmart. I always plan out my stops and know what Walmarts allow overnight parking and which ones don't. I carry 2 X 12 X 24 to use if it is to unlevelled and need to put my jacks down to level so I can use my slides.

Walmart welcomes RVers. Walmart has no rules about slides out or in.

Read for yourself at the Walmart website FAQ.

Lots of RVers have their own made up rules about Walmart, they are not Walmart's rules.

Dustytuu wrote:
Just my opinion, if you can't afford or want to spend money for a campground for overnight, then maybe this RV life may not be for you.
Flame suit on here.
Campgrounds/RV parks, usually are a safer place to sleep. :)

Flame suit on? As it should be.
When I'm in travel mode I usually stop the night before reaching my destination. There is no reason to go out of my way to find a camp ground to give my money to. The walmart stop is for provisions. If late I'll spend the night get a good nights sleep and head out in the morning.
My RV experience is usually boondocking so your view and mine are different of what the RV life is.
Staying in a campground is not my thing. Has nothing to do with Money. I want to step out of my TC Hop in the Rhino and begin my trail ride into our various NF's.
If your more comfortable pulling into your Black top campsite/parking spot with 50 amp service and putting out your 3 slides and slipping out of your fire suit I'm ok with that. ;)