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
Mix With the World
I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it. . . . I can speak from experience on the subject. From 1793 to 1797, I remained closely at home, saw none but those who came there, and at length became very sensible of the ill effect it had upon my mind, and of its direct and irresistible tendency to render me unfit for society, and uneasy when necessarily engaged in it. I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then to see that it led to an anti-social and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punishes him who gives in to it; and it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.
John Adams