Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:03:03 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Walmart Hospitality/Bus Story
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> This should be anathema to all, but WalMart is very hospitable to
> RVers. I
> believe there are RVers that camp at WalMart parking lots across
> the US of A
> and take delight in breakfasting at the on-site McDonalds in most
> WalMarts.
This reminds moi of our only experience in camping overnite in a
Walmart parking lot. It is for professionals only, do not try this w/
your vanagon unless your are prepared for the results!
We left for a vw show/swap in Sacramento 1 Labor Day weekend on a
Friday after work, the SO & moi. Late that nite we are around
beautiful Elko, NV looking for a place to camp overnite, & after
little luck see a Walmart, & decide to partake & observe the Walmart
Experience.
Pull into the lot & take up space outside the entry next to a PU w/
big live-in horse trailer & 6-8 really big RV's. Minding our own
business, having a nice cup of java the next morning in our comfy
westy, we observe the other overniters, slowly disembark from their
rigs & mossy into Walmart for 1 thing or another. Ahhhhh, that's why
Wally lets people camp in his lot!
Eventually, a rancher looking woman & her young daughter, come out of
Walmart & place a no. of purchases in the horse trailer & drive over
to the side of the lot a 100 yds. away & start staging for something
beside their trailer. They set up some portable metal fences & start
bringing out some sort of critters & placing them in the 2 pens they
have made. What, do I see some small white furry creatures being
placed in 1 pen & some much smaller undistinguishable other critters
being placed in another pen?
Tell the SO that we should go over & check the critters out. She
reminds moi that our latest departed dog has only been gone for a
couple of months, is buried in the back yard not far from the other
earlier departed dog, & she is not mentally ready for another dog.
OK, I say, we will just look, & then have a conversation about how we
have never been able to "just look", & she has always brought home
the pet that instantly bonds w/ her because she has to!
Head over to visit, & observe that there are 3 Great Pyrenees puppies
in 1 pen & 8 Border Collie/Aussy Shepard mix puppies in the other
pen. No disrespect to the BC/AS's but our last 3 dogs were pure
white Samoyeds & we love white dogs. Wife is intrigued about getting
one but since we no nada about GP's, we decide to visit inside of
Wally's & check out the literature on this beautiful breed, which we
do know is eventually HUGE. Find the pet book section, read up on
them & discover that they are not appropriate for our urban home, &
decide to purchase one! Buy a leash, collar, puppy chow, bowls, dog
bed, etc. & head out of Wally's to clinch the deal $$. A pure white
male bonds w/ the SO, & we decide to take him w/ us to CA. Ranch
Lady gives him a shot, we give her our money, & we load him up in the
westy & head off in search of split window bus parts, & to sell tilts
to the masses.
We have not dared to enjoy Wally's hospitality since, but Carl, the
GP still travels in UT, CA, NV, AZ, etc whenever he can!
The moral of this diatribe is: Beware of the hospitality of Walmart.
Pax,
Tom B.-SO now claims she didn't want dog, & I forced Carl upon her.
Huhhhhh?
>
> I believe Las Vegas has the highest concentration of WalMarts in
> the US with
> something like 16 around the greater LV area.
>
>
> On 1/26/07, Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you're a bit nervous, don't know or like the feel of the town,
>> police
>> station parking lots work pretty well.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 1/26/07 10:22 AM, "Tom Buese" <tombuese@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>>
>> >> gerald: if you must overnight on the street,park near apartment
>> >> buildings-
>> >> MIKE
>> >
>> > Because VW bus owners can't afford a home & only live in Apts? LOL
>> >
>> > Tom B.-how about funeral home parking lots?
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> mordo
> 1990 Carat
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