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
Running With the Pack
Hardly anyone out there is going to take this seriously, but TV changes you. The kicker is that if you watch it all the time, you'll never know, which under normal circumstances ought to scare you shitless...
No amount of sermonizing will make a difference here, so I'll move on. But I'm telling you, it's true. If you disconnect from the medium long enough to stop associating certain days and times with TV shows you're used to watching, you WILL be different, with values and behavior that arise from sources you never knew existed. There is no arguing with this, you simply have to experience it.