{"id":23550,"date":"2011-02-07T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2016-09-16T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:40:26","slug":"nice-rest-area-in-abbotsford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/nice-rest-area-in-abbotsford\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Rest Area in Abbotsford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to be out of Tradex ASAP this morning and have unresolved business with the RV show. Until that is settled, I don&#8217;t want to make any firm plans. One thing I know for sure is that I don&#8217;t want to spend the next couple of months in the Vancouver area; the cost of living is way too high. So I&#8217;ve decided to bump around a variety of dry camping spots for a couple of days until my batteries force me to plug in somewhere for a night.<\/p>\n<p>After some Googling last night and this morning, I found out that there is a nice rest area on Cole road, exit 99, in Abbotsford. It has an easy access dump and water station. I was very overdue for both dumping and taking on fresh water, so this place is a haven! Stays are limited to 8 hours (which is very different from &#8216;no overnight parking allowed&#8217;), so I&#8217;ve decided to come spend my days here since it&#8217;s peaceful and a bit off of the highway, and then move to the Walmart for the night since it&#8217;s only a couple of exits away. I called to make sure that they allow parking; yes, but they warned me that it&#8217;s noisy since RV parking is allowed only on the Home Depot side (&#8220;delivery trucks come in all night&#8221;) and the road. I&#8217;ll stay on the latter side. I&#8217;ve been at an airport for a week, so I doubt a little traffic is going to keep me up! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I know where I want to spend the next few months, until winter breaks and I get some more options, but I&#8217;m really stuck in the GVR until the RV show file is firmly closed. I&#8217;m really disappointed to be in this situation, since I just want to crash somewhere and sleep for a week, but I&#8217;m hanging on and will reassess in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to be out of Tradex ASAP this morning and have unresolved business with the RV show. Until that is settled, I don&#8217;t want to make any firm plans. One thing I know for sure is that I don&#8217;t want to spend the next couple of months in the Vancouver area; the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1442,632,635,5,3],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbotsford","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}