The instigators of this fire stopped “camping” the minute they moved their rig from one part of the lot to another.
If they had put that hot cookstove into their camper before leaving an actual campground before parking next to their victims, could they sue the campground?
There is every...
How does this involve overnighting at Walmart? The family wasn’t there overnight and the minivan could have been a Buick sedan for all that it matters.
This was something that could have happened in the parking lot of a Sears or a McDonald’s. It’s tragic but has ZERO to do with nomadic living.
The power required to REfreeze a thawed blue ice block - over and over again - would be insane.
Most freezers are designed to KEEP frozen food frozen, not to freeze room temp items. They are not ice makers.
That license technically expired after you moved out of the state.
They usually give you about a 45-day “grace period” for you to get re-licensed at your new home but, after that, you are technically unlicensed.
Every DMV in the country, at least in the four or five states I have been licensed in, REQUIRES a residential address for license and registration. No “mailing address” option.
Most states will NOT accept a post office box as a residential address. Which is why so many nomads use South Dakota, which has comically loose registration requirements (and only a day or two “residency” requirements).
I am home based in Missouri where the DMV accepts addresses in UPS mailbox...
My roadside assistance includes towing - and towing on a flatbed since I drive a Class B motorhome - which would be to a tire shop to buy a new tire.
Carrying a spare is just dead weight to me. And dead weight is lost miles per gallon.
Has anyone else noticed that Walmart has apparently decided there’s more money to be made selling drinking water in $1 jugs as they phase out - or do not include in “rehabs” or new stores - the machines where you fill your own jug for 39 cents@gallon?
The time is coming you won’t be able to...
My first rule of living in a van is never look like you live in a van.
I’m pretty sure most of the folks at the location you describe wouldn’t pass this simple test.
My 1987 Chevy motorhome is easily as tall as yours and my mechanic - who operates his own independent garage that has NO hydraulic lift - is happy to do just about any work I need.
Your mechanic clearly makes more money than mine if he can refuse work with such an arbitrarily sissy rule about...
Ambulances are often too wide and too heavy for your normal auto repair bays, so you are also looking at primo rates for professional repair or maintenance. Even basic things like oil changes.