Who doesn’t love Wal-Mart? I mean, how could you not? They roll back prices, they have happy retirees welcome you to the store, they refuse to promote women, they ban books and music from their stores based on their own ideas of propriety…it’s nearly a utopia. Unfortunately for one Washington Post photographer, Jim Thresher, his and his lover Laura’s blogumentary of their all-expense paid trip across our great nation resulted in a roll back of his personal income and a stern word from Len Downie.

According to several stories linked from Consumerist, Jim and Laura happened upon a sea of RV’s in a Wal-Mart parking lot on their vacation in Arizona. This piqued their interest in seeing the country’s Wal-Marts in a moving house, and they wound up giving a Wal-Mart fronted PR group, Working Families for Wal-Mart, a call to see if it would be O.K. if they could write a story about it for an RV magazine. Seizing the opportunity, Wal-Mart offered to foot the bill! What a deal! Free RV, free gas and expenses, covered blogging costs, and of course, free rein to park overnight in any Wal-Mart parking lot they came across.