Get to know the car-dwelling nomads that live in America's Walmart parking lots

 

If you embark on a spontaneous road trip without enough money for overnight lodging and consider sleeping in your car on the side of the road, you might be woken up by the police before the break of dawn and told to move along. What should you do with no place to sleep in sight? Well, if there's a Walmart parking lot close by, you could consider yourself saved.

There are 4,000+ Walmart stores in the US, and the company has a policy that allows car-dwelling people to sleep overnight in its parking lots. Some Walmarts, such as one in Flagstaff, AZ, allow people to camp out in the parking lot for whole seasons, and it's all in the name of increasing sales.

Over time, a subculture of nomadic people and families living their lives on the road has formed in the department stores' parking lots everywhere, so check out an article and some photos at Wired to get a closer look at who these nomads are.

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72-year-old mailman has America's longest route

 

Bloomberg has an interesting read from Oklahoma, following the story of Jim Ed Bull, a postal worker with the longest route in the country – a staggering 187.6 miles. For reference, that's like driving from the far northern side of Detroit to the far eastern side of Cleveland every day just to deliver the mail. Bull does this five times per week.

And while the story might not be hugely focused on cars, aside from Bull's Ford Ranger and his ability to drive entirely with the left side of his body while working mailboxes with his right hand, it's quite an interesting story in and of itself.

Head over to Bloomberg for the full read on what keeps this Sooner going.

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America's Space Policy Needs A Guiding Vision (nasawatch)

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