Life at a Walmart

The drive through Louisiana was interesting.  At certain points you are driving through a swamp.  I bet the highway was difficult and expensive to build.

 

We’ve done it!  We finally stayed overnight at a Walmart parking lot.  If you didn’t know, most Walmarts are OK with RV’s staying the night.  RV’ers will normally buy something (we did) and it doesn’t cost them anything to have us park.  Many RV’ers have stayed in a Walmart parking lot.  A certain type of RV’er will stay most of their time in Walmarts.  We had plans to stay somewhere else, but the primary and backup stops kind of fell through.  We’ve always kept Walmart as an alternative stop.

The protocol is to find a place on the outskirts of the parking lot and keep the RV buttoned up (ie. don’t open up the slides).  There were a few trucks nearby, but no RV’s stayed the night.  It’s certainly not the quietest place we’ve stopped.  This Walmart was right beside a highway. Since we are in Houston, we were able to get 105 channels on the antennae, which is the most we’ve ever got.  But I didn’t like the opportunities for a morning walk.  Other than a walk through the store, it wasn’t a good area for walking.