At Home on the Road
September 1, 2009 by John Sanders
Filed under People and Places
The Walmart parking lot in Butte, Montana resembled a campground. More than twenty RVs, campers and travel trailers were parked on the outskirts when we arrived in the late afternoon. The vehicles varied from top-of-the-line, bus-shaped motor homes to old, creaking models that had seen far better days.
Our 1986 Toyota Escaper fell toward the less attractive end of that spectrum and, for the first time on our trip, we shared the Walmart parking lot with a vehicle just like it. That’s how we met Mike and Jane. Read more
Waking Up at Wal-Mart
July 12, 2009 by John Sanders
Filed under John's Posts, On the Road: Our Personal Blog
“We have a reservation,” I said as I hung up the phone.
Julie laughed. Kinda hard.
It was funny because I’d just been on the line with the manager of a Wal-Mart Supercenter outside of St. Louis, asking if they would allow us to park overnight in their parking lot. We’d be sleeping outside “Wallyworld.” Read more
