Day 51 ~ 09/25/16

Today was a travel day.  Thought we were going to spend a couple of days in Pennsylvania.  Little did we realize that once past Wilkes Barre on 81 it’s no mans land for camping unless you want to travel an hour off the highway.  We ended up in a Walmart parking lot only 298 miles from home.  Two other campers joined us there.  They had the same problem.  When we were ready to leave the next morning we couldn’t figure out how we got into the parking lot without losing our a/c on the top of the camper.  Never noticed the night before that this Walmart set up overhead height clearance restrictions. They did it because across the street there is a tractor trailer fueling station/rest area and apparently Walmart doesn’t want the overflow in their parking lot.  Clearance was only 12’2″.  FYI our camper is 13’4″.  One of the Walmart employees noticed our dilemma and told us that the 12’2″ was actually a lie. That there was more clearance than that especially if driving right under the middle which is what we must have done the night before.   With the guidance of several employees we were able to leave the parking lot with NO room to spare.  The 12’2″ sign on the overhead bar was actually swinging when we left.  At one point we thought we were going to have to deflate the camper tires just to make in under.  But it didn’t come to that.  Like Alan says he would rather be lucky than good.  We were VERY lucky today.  It could have been a very expensive and embarrassing day.