I just love this quirky character.  He has a very different approach to life.

http://travel.baddalailama.com/2010/08/wal-mart-motel-20night.html  

Some of his other blog articles are worth a read too.

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As a matter of interest, I made a point of visiting a Wal Mart when in Hawaii last year.

The one there was like a full on K Mart or Big W around the perimeter of a complete Wollworths or Coles food store in the center .. With extensive Liquor sales too. A massive one level building.  

Unfortunately no 'Walmartins' there.  

We enjoyed their cheap wine & nibbles from the balcony of our swank Hotel overlooking Waikiki beach.  Magic!!

I am obviously not a freedom camper, but I can see where he is coming from.

-- Edited by Cupie on Sunday 19th of October 2014 04:59:24 PM

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Here's an extract from a story that I picked at random .. Just to give you a taste of his stuff .....  The last two paragraphs are well worth looking at.

"Camp Site Alpha was a former landfill in an industrial neighborhood in the inner San Diego suburbs. Like countless other urban sites, it was fine for a night or two but it was not sustainable for the long term. This was land owned by the county government in a relatively dense suburban area, and it was only a matter of time before someone detected my presence and complained to police.

When I rented a car for a day to get through the worst of the rain, I took the opportunity to scout for a new campsite, one I could use anytime with little fear of discovery and few worries even if it happened. While there is plenty of empty land in the remote desert where you can camp almost indefinitely, my camp site had to be accessible via cheap public transportation.

As reported earlier, I found such a site in the eastern suburban fringes about a half hour bus ride from the trolley line. In this area, modest housing developments (mostly well-kept mobile homes) were interspersed with equal areas of hilly open land. To my eye, the land appeared to be "public"that is, federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

By default, you have a right to camp on public land. Essentially, you can to live there rent free for as long as you like, providing you don't cause any damage and you move at regular intervals. Local BLM districts, however, may impose restrictions on camping to meet local needs, such as closing certain sensitive or overused areas or restricting the amount of time you can stay in one place.

Having lived in Nevada for 15 years, I was familiar with the wonders of public land. In the open desert outside Las Vegas, you are permitted to camp on one place for up to 14 days, no permit required. After that, you have to move a certain distance away, then you can camp for 14 days again in the new site, and after a certain time has passed, you can return to the original site. By hop-scotching around like this, you can legally live forever on public land and never pay a cent of rent.