disney4dan
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 16, 2007
These are all great suggestions, and we've used The Next Exit and I have done some pre-planning via Google Earth to look at the layout in the past. I like the TomTom idea with the gas information.
But I hear ya on some of the stations. I pulled into a truck stop somewhere in the Carolina's (can't remember) and they had arranged the set up so that only trucks were allowed out back, cars and RVs in front of the store. I got into the pumps OK, and there was enough room between the dispensers and the store to pull out, but all the parking spaces in the lot were full, and a bus had parked in the travel/turning lanes to let people in to get lunch. Knowing he was going to be there for a while, I thought I'd just go around the store and out. Guess enough people had done this that they had placed curb stones to prevent it.
Here we are, aimed toward the wrong way and needing to back up in front of the store in a VERY crowded parking lot and then attempt to thread the needle between the parked bus and parked cars. Boy, I coulda used Donny's help with this, but some other RV'er saw my predicament and cleared the path behind the trailer so that some car did not try to sneak behind me while I was backing up . You should have seen the look on the bus driver's face as I pulled the trailer past the bus within one foot of the steps.
But I hear ya on some of the stations. I pulled into a truck stop somewhere in the Carolina's (can't remember) and they had arranged the set up so that only trucks were allowed out back, cars and RVs in front of the store. I got into the pumps OK, and there was enough room between the dispensers and the store to pull out, but all the parking spaces in the lot were full, and a bus had parked in the travel/turning lanes to let people in to get lunch. Knowing he was going to be there for a while, I thought I'd just go around the store and out. Guess enough people had done this that they had placed curb stones to prevent it.
Here we are, aimed toward the wrong way and needing to back up in front of the store in a VERY crowded parking lot and then attempt to thread the needle between the parked bus and parked cars. Boy, I coulda used Donny's help with this, but some other RV'er saw my predicament and cleared the path behind the trailer so that some car did not try to sneak behind me while I was backing up . You should have seen the look on the bus driver's face as I pulled the trailer past the bus within one foot of the steps.