Friday, December 05, 2008 - Tuscaloosa AL
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Passing Towboat, Foscue Creek Park, Dec 02, 2008
Best laid plans and all that
The painting didn't happen. First off I got involved with cooking up a new scheme for managing the Journal Archives and then later went off to find some propane - nights have been cold here and my tank was getting low. From there I went off to Lowes to see if I could find a new mini blind to replace the ratty old one in the kitchen. Success! - accompanied by more time than I would have imagined figuring out how you shorten the darned thing to fit the window.
It looks nice.
Night Camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in Tuscaloosa AL
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Tuscaloosa AL
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #715, 1501 Skyland Blvd E, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 - (205) 750-0823
This Wal-Mart is one of my favorite parking lots for overnight dry camping. There is good, level parking and access to lots of shopping and services useful to the traveler.
- Good level parking, reasonably quiet
- Books-a-Million & Michaels Craft store across the road
- U-Haul propane nearby, Lowe's and Home Depot 1 mile
- Major shopping centers nearby
- Verizon cell phone service is excellent
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service is excellent
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Walking the edge, I am. ...
... On some days breathing, eating and not folding into a ball in a corner is all I can manage. I had a few of those days in the past three weeks. It reminds me, in ways I do not like to be reminded, just how damaged I really am.
Like a character from the television show "Cheers" once said, "It's a dog eat dog world out there - and I'm wearing milkbone underwear."