Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How you ever crapped in an interstate Rest Area?

Helluva strange topic but i'll bite. We stopped at one on I95 headed south outside of Boston back in Nov, had to piss like a race horse and the regular bathrooms were all closed up for maintenance so they had about 6 porta potties outside. I was checking them to see which was one wasn't occupied, when I stepped inside it I knew right away why nobody was using it. It had [bleep] all the way up to the bottom of the seat and I had all I could do to not gag. I took a piss and went back to the car and the wife asked if it was ok if she went and I laughed and told her what I saw, she about turned green and said she'd wait until we got to her cousins place which was another hour and half from there.

That said, most others i've used have been pretty clean and had not stench but you roll the dice and take you chances these days.

Maybe once or twice in my life. I don't [bleep] outside my home unless a dire emergency occurs, and that is really rare.

Pre-smartphone 15 year corporate puke always had me an A, B and C option identified near all the facilities in my region. Never chit where you eat theory. Couple marked-up Thomas guides boxed up somewheres in the garage for the heirs.

Kids hate traveling by vehicle with me and we pass one of my old way-stations.

old Gramps used to bring a bucket when we travelled while towing the ocean boat. stuck in traffic and gotta go?
No problem! jump out of the truck, climb up in the boat, plop down on the bucket. Cars could see about shoulder up. He didn't care. Lid snapped on the bucket. Needless to say, no one opened any random buckets laying around........

Nicest rest area's I've ever been in were in Iowa along 80 heading to Wyoming a few months ago. They were beautiful.

One of the nicest rest areas I ever saw was along I 10 either in Mississippi or Alabama. This place has statues of game fish and dolphins and such, green mowed lawns, security type persons, clean as can be restrooms, even smells good. Nothing in Colorado can match it.