Casino Camping

Casino camping was a good experience.  On our round robin to Florida, Illinois and back to Wyoming we visited several casinos and slept/camped in a few.  Some charged 30 to 40 a night with full hook-ups.  One of the free sites even told us we could run our generator all night for our internal power.  So we will ask about the AC in parking lots at all  stay overs in the future.  Of course   we parked off by our selves and down wind of the few other RV's in large parking lots.

 Below is lot camping away from the main entrances, all the places we visited allowed overnight RV parking or m

 The below view is from our paid site at a casino with water and electric power and a dump on the road out of the lot.

Lodge Cast Iron

Stopped by the Lodge plant and store while heading north from Florida it was a nice stop.

On this trip I did not buy any additional iron, it still was a great stop-over.  The Lodge store is set to move to a new building just behind its current location the next day.

For some reason I was shocked to see a dump truck drive by with Lodge Iron Scrap written on its door.  Makes total sense since they use iron to make those great pots and pans:)

I will be doing more with my cast iron cooking in future weeks.  Feel free to leave a comment.

CPAP & Shoe Box

CPAP & Shoe Box

There is just enough room on the floor next to my bed for my concentrator to allow 360 ventilation.  My CPAP on the other hand was a tight fit between the bed and the wall on a little ledge.  So I turned a shoe box over which just fit and now I have a perfect stand for my CPAP and clock.

On this trip I have not had to go on batteries yet for my CPAP and O2 so no more tests there.  I still feel with the two batteries and solar I have one night in the batteries.  If there is no overcast my two 100 watt panels should be able to recharge for the next night.  These two batteries are not tied into the generator they stand alone.  I also have enough O2 bottles for two more nights as additional backup.

I could hook-up a charger and run the generator or plug into shore power if I needed to but prefer to stay independent if I can.



WalMart Was Great

On our way down to Florida we ran into a lot of rain and tornado warnings.  This ended up giving us our first overnight stay in a "Walmart" and it was nice.  We pulled in to the store and say some Walmart trucks and asked if it was OK to stay their overnight.  The two drivers were very nice and one showed me an app that listed many free locations you can stay overnight called "rvovernight".  The app listed the location I was at but not one in the next town down.  I asked if I could run my generator overnight they said they run their APU's so this was great.  We then walked into the store and double checked with the on duty customer service manager she confirmed it being OK, and we reloaded the RV with goodies. Staff, Drivers and Town was great!  Thank You WalMart!