Wallydocker - RV Life in America

Wallydocking: an RV term used to describe "urban stays outside of a RV park" and covers "stealth camping" "front yard camping" "Flying J / truckstops" "Wal-Mart / retail parking lots" and other similar situations.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

You might just be a Wallydocker if....

You might just be a Wallydocker if....
1. You spend one night or more a month in a parking lot. 2. When you take out your trash the bag has a yellow smiley face.
3. When you have your morning coffee you watch shoppers going about their business.
4. When your three year old grandson wakes up, looks out the window at the lake and says "papa where's Wal-Mart?"
5.
You take your morning walk around the parking lot.
6. On rainy days your morning walk is inside Wal-Mart on the outer perimeter aisle.
7. Your looking on your FMCA map to see where the nearest Wal-Mart or Flying J is located.
8. Anything over five bucks is to much to pay for a few hours parking.
9. You don't see it as unusual to spend the night in a parking lot.
10. Your low on toilet paper but you know you can pick-up some in the morning before you leave.
11. When your daughter traveling for the first time with you says "Gah! you guys must know where every Wal-Mart in America is!"
12. When you find yourself explaining to friends and/or relatives that Wal-Mart is quieter than and safer than Truckstops or Rest Areas.
13. You can step out the door and go in to buy your supplies.
14. When watching the kids from town, congregating in the parking lot at night is considered entertainment.
15. When you have to search for a grassy spot for the dog to potty.
16. When your having to search out a free dump station and place to fill your water tank.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Fuel Prices versus Work at Home


Fuel prices are continuing to climb, up another twelve cents overnight. I guess I'll head down to the auto parts store and see if can find a locking gas cap for our Bounder. With a hundred gallon tank, stealing gas from a motor home could look pretty easy to some. But it would be Grand Larceny now instead of just petty theft.

That brings me back to harping at anyone that will listen about the virtues of having an online business. No commute, no traffic, no boss and now best of all no gasoline being burned on the way to work. Just get up make the coffee and putter down the hall to the computer. Affiliate marketing on the internet has been very lucrative for many, myself included. Just read what this lady has got to say. I did and it really made a difference in my online income.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Outsourcing

Ok, so there I am standing in the line at the Post Office. A little old lady (older even than me) was behind me in the line. It's a small town and so everyone in the line is talking to each other or anyone that's listening. After a round house discussion of the gas prices and a touch on politics the little old lady recounted "You know" she says "I was talking to my daughter in Houston yesterday and she told me that she had been to McDonald with her kids. Well you wouldn't have ever guessed it but the speaker phone where you place the order. Well that speaker phone was hooked up to an operator in India, to take the order for the burgers to be delivered at the drive up window. Pretty sad when even the jobs for kids is being outsourced to India."

This a true story as I sit here today. If your job has been or is being or in jeopardy of being outsourced maybe you should check out a Home Based Business at Wallydocking.com

Monday, April 10, 2006

Winter Weight

Losing that winter weight
OK, truth is I have put on a few extra pounds over this past winter. My wife hurt her foot and we have'nt been walking. Now I guess we're being faced with that dreaded four letter word diet. Yes, you read it right diet.Normally when we travel we are'nt faced with such a consequence. We have our oatmeal and juice or fruit at breakfast, usually about nine or nine-thirty in the morning. Lunch comes about one or two and we have soup or a sandwich. We buy small portion TV dinners for our evening meal with yogurt for a snack. So we don't have to worry much because are daily activities are enough to burn up any excess calories.But, we didn't travel this past winter, just eating at home and laying around watching TV. Now the pants don't fit as well as they used to and something got to give. Rather than going on a diet we normally walk a mile or so four or five times a week. But her foot is hurt and I totally lack the ambition to walk by myself. So I've been trying to come up with an alternative to diet, not an alternative diet.I mowed the grass an Saturday, took Sunday off, our four year old grandson came over on Monday, and I know that he was good for at least a few calories. I thought about cleaning the garage but to be honest I would almost rather diet. Guess I'll go piddle with the motorhome and maybe go fishing.

Friday, April 07, 2006

Fulltiming


Fulltimers
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Thursday, April 06, 2006

RV Blogging Along the Highway
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