Solitude, truck stops

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  1. Aug 9, 2015 #1
    dca

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    With the occasional stop to refuel, replenish and refresh, do you ever find your self in camp solitude ?

    It may not look like much but there's more here going on then one might think

    Peace...

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  3. Aug 9, 2015 #2
    toymaker

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    Every chance I get to go to a rural area with few around, especially somewhere in the Plains, I soak it all in, grateful for the moment. It's peaceful looking out into empty spaces. Similar effect as a large body of water.
     
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    Straight Stacks

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    I find myself sleeping uninterrupted in camp solitude quite often...away from the ever present, mirror and bumper eating beast known as "Mega"!
     
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    Dale thompson

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    after viewing the pics I don't think anything is going on there juuuusst the way I like it
     
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    Oaker

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  8. Aug 9, 2015 #6
    PackRatTDI

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    I like to park at that last picnic area on US90 near Del Rio. It's up on a hill and usually pretty quiet.
     
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    STexan

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    I was told to arrive b4 16:00 at an egg plant deep, deep, deep in an rural Iowa cornfield and they'd load me (a day early). Got there and turns out I was "lied to". Everybody left (Friday night) and did not get loaded until the following morning. The silence was deafening and the flies were bad too.

    The campground area on Colorado I-70 is nice (exit 121 I think). Limited truck parking, but is best to avoid during nice days when tourists and travelers are thick such as weekends and during fall colors
     
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  10. Aug 9, 2015 #8
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    Last week I was so tired of the interstates I took back roads to the shipper and love it. I also love mountain runs.
     
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  11. Aug 9, 2015 #9
    25(2)+2

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    I found a place off Pulaski in Chicago near Midway, so silence wasn't great, but no knocks and no evidence of close encounters of the damaging kind. working on weekends, get less problem with congestion but Friday PM in Chicagoland is for the birds as far as driving anywhere really decent.

    Like the egg factory in the middle of nowhere in IA or OH. I've delivered to one in IA and picked up at a couple in OH.

    BTW, the Burger King I used to park at is being encroached on by a huge new Wal-mart, with a back way into that through what was formerly truck parking. Progress, I guess, but I'd prefer less of that, myself.
     
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  12. Aug 10, 2015 #10
    PackRatTDI

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    I did a pottery clay run that had a drop in Concho, AZ at a guys house and the final in Las Cruces, NM. He told me that next time I could get there the night before and park on the county road. It would definitely be isolated out there.
     
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