Please Help RVer's in Need! - Update

This has been an interesting social enlightenment, sad but interesting. In attempting to try to help these people it has been a learning process. LL has found no response from emailing churches, can't give any reason as there has been no response. In speaking to people at campsites the opinion is these distressed people living in RV's have taken away from other RV campers free camping they previously had. Since there has been such an increase of distressed people, the previous free areas to stay overnight are now no longer, and the regular RV people are not happy with those that have ruined it for them. Check back for updates on this issue.

While traveling south on the west coast, LL and Ricky have been watching local news stories of people living in RV's with no place to stay. Many of these people were elderly and disabled and the current economy had pushed these fragile lives into RV's without the means to pay for a overnight campsite. Many of the people interviewed did not want their faces on camera, which struck us as people with pride, that had been functioning in society until they no longer had a means of working and this was not the way they wanted to be known.

This was portrayed as a local problem, in each location that we stayed. LL started thinking about what could help these people get some comfort and rest, knowing that moving from place to place with somewhere to go can be wearing but if you had no place to go, parked in a unsafe area and harassed by police, what an exhausting life these people face every moment of everyday. LL decided to approach local churches with parking lots asking them to allow these people to park overnight to get some rest and have comfort being in a safer environment then some back dark street in a commercial area.

Please Help!

Talking to people these days the word "scary" keeps coming up when discussing the economy, jobs and feeling secure about ones own living situation. Its apparent that what you have today can easily slip away tomorrow with a job loss or a health issue. Also noticeable in conversations many times is blame or judgment of peoples situations. If needed, remove yourself from judgments and think about these people, as people in your community or family. Regardless of the causes, these are people who need a hand that could easily be given, by giving them a place to park for the night. Its not as huge of an issue as a tent city, there are no restroom and kitchen facility needs, its just parking. They have been able to feed themselves and have shelter, it just needs to be parked.

LL and Ricky are asking you to contact your church and your local churches with parking lots and request that they give some parking to these people in need for overnight so that they can get some REAL rest, therefore maybe be able to take better care of themselves to take advantage of resolving their challenges with clear rested thinking. Also if there are any other places available such as corporate locations that are closed at night with a parking facility, please ask them or send us any of your ideas! If you do not have the time to contact local churches, if you could find a contact email address and send it to us on our contact form; it would assist us on contacting them. If you can find it in your heart to send a email request to your friends and family to do the same it would make a difference, power in numbers! We like to email especially those family and friends that send endless negative political emails for something different that they can do, help for a change!

A few things got our attention on this matter, of course living in a RV on the road it just takes one bad event that could put us in their shoes; having a story on every local news station in three states traveled makes this a national hardship not just a local one and the one story showing an alone woman's wringing hands obviously elderly, had worked her entire life feeling too much shame to show her face and stating the first time in her life she was afraid of the police.

If you participate, please let us know who you have contacted and any progress as we would like to post and distribute the information for those in need.