Thursday, March 13, 2008 - Payson AZ
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Saving face version 2, City of Rocks State Park, Deming NM, March 8, 2008
A note about overnighting here
Wal-Mart has posted signs in their parking lot here prohibiting overnight parking after 24 hours. Clever - this lot is not designed to cope with many big rigs and this signage seems to discourage them quite well - I'm the only one here for the night, other than a Wal-Mart delivery truck.
This is the first restricted parking I have come across so far regarding overnight parking in a Wal-Mart parking lot. I've read that there are many such restricted lots but I guess I've been lucky so far and have not come across one until now. I put on more miles today than I hoped to and I'm sure glad I could stay the night.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in Payson AZ
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Payson AZ
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #1369, 300 N. Beeline Hwy, Payson, AZ 85541 - (928) 474-0029
- Small lot restricted to 24 hour parking
- Verizon cell phone service - don't remember
- Verizon EVDO service - don't remember
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Troops Endure Blowing Sands and Mud Rain
... The single, solitary departure from this pattern came when it suddenly rained in the early evening. What fell from the sky was not water but mud, the rain pulling suspended sand into wet globs and pelting those foolish mortals who thought they could endure a 30- or 40-hour sandstorm. The temperature was just below 100 degrees, and everyone traveling with the military wore protective chemical and biological suits that enclosed the body from head to toe, plus body armor and a helmet. ...