Salem eyes Eugene’s car camping program, with some differences
Doug Pendleton, a former resident of Cascades Gateway Park, pictured in September, shows the inside of the van he lives in. Pendleton said he’d use a car camping program if Salem enacts one. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter)
Doug Pendleton was woken Monday at 7 a.m. and drove to the Walmart parking lot to wait out the darkness. Then he spent his day parked at a city park.
The 64-year-old lives in a white, 1999 GMC Safari.…
