|
|
10-24-2012, 10:38 AM
|
#5573
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Phx, Arid~zona
Posts: 11,106
|
Probably about 35 miles. Driveway's full.
|
|
|
|
Join the #1 RV Forum Today - It's Totally Free!
iRV2.com RV Community - Are you about to start a new improvement on your RV or need some help with some maintenance? Do you need advice on what products to buy? Or maybe you can give others some advice? No matter where you fit in you'll find that iRV2 is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with other RV owners, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create an RV blog, send private messages and so much, much more!
|
10-24-2012, 06:06 PM
|
#5574
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Medford, OR
Posts: 278
|
I really meant to finish my comment by saying: Why not use Walmart as it was intended...a quick stop w/o frills when you're down to the wire, arriving late and leaving early and have no need for more expensive services a park might offer. Stop, shop, eat, sleep, leave your slide and awnings in, get up the next morning and leave. that way it's more likely the rest of us and our next generation will have the same privilege. Now I'm done.
|
|
|
10-24-2012, 06:16 PM
|
#5575
|
Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Port Hadlock, Washington
Posts: 2,855
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by rvjimzhr
I really meant to finish my comment by saying: Why not use Walmart as it was intended...a quick stop w/o frills when you're down to the wire, arriving late and leaving early and have no need for more expensive services a park might offer. Stop, shop, eat, sleep, leave your slide and awnings in, get up the next morning and leave. that way it's more likely the rest of us and our next generation will have the same privilege. Now I'm done.
|
So THAt'S what Walmart was/is intended for.... and here all along I thought it was for putting cheap goods in the hands of American consumers!
Thanks for setting me straight, RVjim!
|
|
|
10-24-2012, 07:09 PM
|
#5576
|
Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Almond, Wisconsin
Posts: 1,512
|
Maybe if I could find a spot right in front of the store and leave all my slides in the local police will think I'm shopping. This way in the morning I won't have so far to walk for Donuts. Jim
__________________
2006 Monaco Camelot 40 PAQ 400ISL - Toad Jeep Grand Cherokee - DW is the Nagivator. Retired to travel and everything revolves around the price of diesel.
|
|
|
10-25-2012, 02:34 AM
|
#5577
|
Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Sauvie Island, OR
Posts: 2,596
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by mikell
I own a campground about a mile from Wal Mart and it hurts a bit to see the lot full on Saturday morning but they are 100 yards from the e way exit and free. Now when I go by at 5 in the afternoon and there's 3-4 camped in a circle with awnings out (I have Seen this) I hand them a card and tell them were down the road a mile and have a dumpstation and whatever then they whine because it's $10 to dump. Don't worry about my $700 a month water and sewer bill.
I'm done
|
$10's about average for dumpstation, though I did pay $15 at a KOA near the 1880's town or whatever's name was in South Dakota. I'll usually locate an RV park with one and a place to reload my fresh water and pay the fee as I travel along the way, but I do shop around for the least expensive dumpstation, if possible.
Quote:
Originally Posted by 2Labs
We've overnighted - sort of - in the Walmart in Richmond, VA ..us and about 100 other motohomes and campers were there for the night before the NASCAR race. We got their really late, probably about 1am and after making a little dinner and yes, putting out the slides so we had some room in the living and bedroom area, went to sleep for only a few hours.
I woke up at about 6:15am and the place was EMPTY. Everyone was already on their way to the track to get the best camping spots they could. I quickly woke up the DW, closed up the slides and we high tailed it outta' there in hopes that we wouldn't be too far back in the line.
We ended up being the first RV in line at Lot J and got there about 5 hours before the lot opened. I just pulled up to the gate and parked,and crashed on the couch for a nap ... about 30 minutes later I got a knock on the door from a State Trooper on duty for the race weekend asking what we were doing there?
Duh! (No I didn't say that) ... we were waiting for the campground to open. He called in to the track and we finally got "permission" to wait at the gate. Well that's a good thing since Motorhomes and Campers started lining up behind us while he was calling in. By 9am, there were dozens of other RV'ers lined up behind us waiting for the campground to open.
We were the first one's in the campground that weekend, and got the best spot .. but we were also the first ones that got stuck in the mud! It rained something fierce the days leading up to the race weekend, and within an hour, there were dozens of motorhomes, campers, fifth wheels and tag axles stuck in the muddy grass. The race track called in the troops and had about 1/2 dozen small to HUGE tow trucks pulling people out and into their spots ... all at NO cost to the campers!
It doesn't take much wet ground to get a 12 Ton motorhome stuck! There was no way we were getting out of this relatively minor hole without some help.
And yes, the 4x4 towing the fifth wheel was stuck AND the tag axle in the background, yeah they got stuck too. The track had to call in a triple axle monster rig to pull them out!
|
I camped in a field in about the same condition, perhaps a tad squishier back in April 2011, definitely not a place for towables or 2 wheel drive motorhomes or those equipped with highway tread tires.
I dropped it in low and drove in slow and steady and back out slow and steady. I was ready to air down for extra flotation, but the mud tires did their job and air down wasn't needed.
When I leveled up using my blocks I ended up having to double the number as they sank about 6" in before stopping when I rolled the front end up onto them.
I have entries about it in my blog, for those interested, it's last year, called the Hoodstock Jamboree.
__________________
'92 Dodge W250 "Dually" Power Wagon
'74 KIT 1106 Kamper Slide-in Truck Camper
'06 Heartland Bighorn 3400RL Fifth wheel
Follow along with me in the The Journey of
|
|
|
10-25-2012, 08:48 AM
|
#5578
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 148
|
Walmart allows full use of slides and awnings while camping on their property. If they didn't, it would be posted on signs in the campground and their website. My belief is to use their facilities to the fullest extent. In fact, bbqing in their lot is not only tolerated, but expected as it's part of the camping experience.
|
|
|
10-25-2012, 11:41 AM
|
#5579
|
Registered User
Winnebago Owners Club Vintage RV Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Cherry Creek, BC Canada
Posts: 7,648
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RedneckExpress
$10's about average for dumpstation, though I did pay $15 at a KOA near the 1880's town or whatever's name was in South Dakota. I'll usually locate an RV park with one and a place to reload my fresh water and pay the fee as I travel along the way, but I do shop around for the least expensive dumpstation, if possible.
|
I may be totally out to lunch rememory wize but I seem to recall dumping our tanks at a rest stop just about at 1880 Town. It was on the exit side of the reststop just before the truck RV lane and the car lane joined up to become thye highway merge lane. Denise and I ended up staying the better part of the day looking at the various displays and eating in the passenger train restaurant. We would have stayed the day if we could have Wallydocked close by (obligatory on topic line)
|
|
|
10-25-2012, 12:03 PM
|
#5580
|
Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Sauvie Island, OR
Posts: 2,596
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Possum
I may be totally out to lunch rememory wize but I seem to recall dumping our tanks at a rest stop just about at 1880 Town. It was on the exit side of the reststop just before the truck RV lane and the car lane joined up to become thye highway merge lane. Denise and I ended up staying the better part of the day looking at the various displays and eating in the passenger train restaurant. We would have stayed the day if we could have Wallydocked close by (obligatory on topic line)
|
Yeah, I found that one. All those dump stations are gone :'(.
__________________
'92 Dodge W250 "Dually" Power Wagon
'74 KIT 1106 Kamper Slide-in Truck Camper
'06 Heartland Bighorn 3400RL Fifth wheel
Follow along with me in the The Journey of
|
|
|
10-25-2012, 10:53 PM
|
#5581
|
Registered User
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,603
|
CAMPING, not "parking" at WAL MART - YouTube
To the French who watch this, I don't endorse this video. The only thing wrong in this Walmart parking lot is the guy with the camera. Walmart police on patrol.
|
|
|
10-26-2012, 02:55 AM
|
#5582
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 148
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by georgetown350
CAMPING, not "parking" at WAL MART - YouTube
To the French who watch this, I don't endorse this video. The only thing wrong in this Walmart parking lot is the guy with the camera. Walmart police on patrol.
|
I laughed when he called them "offenders". Offenders to what...his rules in life or Walmart's rules?
Anyhow, I thought the video was a nice overview of the spaciousness and serenity at that Walmart location. Hopefully his video will increase RVing and sales for WM.
|
|
|
10-26-2012, 03:20 AM
|
#5583
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 2,457
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by georgetown350
CAMPING, not "parking" at WAL MART - YouTube
To the French who watch this, I don't endorse this video. The only thing wrong in this Walmart parking lot is the guy with the camera. Walmart police on patrol.
|
I guess his Mommy never taught him to mind his own business.
__________________
2008 Itasca 37H
2011 & 2012 Len & Pat's "One lap of America"
27K miles & 41 states in 13 months
Yellowstone Lake 6-1-2012
|
|
|
10-26-2012, 04:09 AM
|
#5584
|
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 203
|
I agree with the above couple of posts. SO WHAT, if you have you slides out or run a genny? Some RV's you can't get through the thing without opening a slide. Walmart managers NEVER have said to me,...
"Yes, you can park but DON'T PUT OUT YOUR SLIDE(S)!
That self-appointed Walmart policeman needs a 'fat-lip'.
All the 'Walmart Campers', I hope, would THANK the manager and show him/her their cash register slips too.
GWinger
|
|
|
10-26-2012, 06:48 AM
|
#5585
|
Registered User
Vintage RV Owners Club Gulf Streamers Club
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indiana
Posts: 4,951
|
He turns around rather quickly at the end. Wonder if he was about to get punc... confronted?
|
|
|
10-26-2012, 07:34 AM
|
#5586
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Spring Valley AZ
Posts: 1,226
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by georgetown350
CAMPING, not "parking" at WAL MART - YouTube
To the French who watch this, I don't endorse this video. The only thing wrong in this Walmart parking lot is the guy with the camera. Walmart vigilante on patrol.
|
Self appointed, self righteous busybody who needs a hobby. (Maybe a life)
__________________
Don, Mary and Spooky
'00 Bluebird Skoolie Conversion
Geo Tracker/Dodge Neon/Aprilia Scooter towed
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|