EARLY Saturday ... not on purpose!
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:16 amGood morning all! Although it is 5 am mountain time, I've been up since 4 am, not of my choosing. With the advent of Facebook I've become a less frequent poster here, I'm afraid.
I am camp-hosting at Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah. A woman knocked at my door at 4 am ... complaining that her neighbor was running a loud a/c unit. She said she asked him to turn it off and he told her he had the right.
So I got dressed, went to her campsite and it turns out the guy in the offending Airstream trailer had shut the unit down.
It's an interesting question. Ten o'clock is quiet time. There are specific rules about running generators during that quiet time, but what about anything that disturbs a neighbor? The problem was that the complaining neighbor was sleeping in a pop-up trailer.
I think sometimes RV'ers can't tell the diff between an RV park and a state campground. In state parks we have mixed use and some campers have only a strip of fabric between themselves and a noisy neighbor, be it loud voices, a running diesel truck ("my kids just wanted to watch a video!"), noisy dogs, or, in this case, an obnoxious a/c unit.
Here it is SO quiet, 20+ miles from the nearest highway. Even during the day people in the c/g speak in low voices. There is a respect for this place.
Long story short: I was gloriously asleep, and now I am not.
Speaking of knocking on my door, two days ago an Austrian couple came to my rig, insisting they had made a telephone reservation here but was told at the visitor center that they did not. I called the 800 number they used to make the reservation and got Canyonlands NP instead! I talked to the park person because the couple's English wasn't good. Turns out the reservation was for Canyonlands and it was hard to find in their computer because there was a typo in the name. (Franz Marx)
So that day I earned my keep. When I arrived here, the ranger asked if I wanted them to take down the "camp host" sign so "people won't bother you." I was amazed at that sentiment. My primary service is to be here for the campers.
Even though I still am not gloriously asleep. And do not have any sweet things to eat with my coffee.
Have a great day, everyone!
I am camp-hosting at Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah. A woman knocked at my door at 4 am ... complaining that her neighbor was running a loud a/c unit. She said she asked him to turn it off and he told her he had the right.
So I got dressed, went to her campsite and it turns out the guy in the offending Airstream trailer had shut the unit down.
It's an interesting question. Ten o'clock is quiet time. There are specific rules about running generators during that quiet time, but what about anything that disturbs a neighbor? The problem was that the complaining neighbor was sleeping in a pop-up trailer.
I think sometimes RV'ers can't tell the diff between an RV park and a state campground. In state parks we have mixed use and some campers have only a strip of fabric between themselves and a noisy neighbor, be it loud voices, a running diesel truck ("my kids just wanted to watch a video!"), noisy dogs, or, in this case, an obnoxious a/c unit.
Here it is SO quiet, 20+ miles from the nearest highway. Even during the day people in the c/g speak in low voices. There is a respect for this place.
Long story short: I was gloriously asleep, and now I am not.
Speaking of knocking on my door, two days ago an Austrian couple came to my rig, insisting they had made a telephone reservation here but was told at the visitor center that they did not. I called the 800 number they used to make the reservation and got Canyonlands NP instead! I talked to the park person because the couple's English wasn't good. Turns out the reservation was for Canyonlands and it was hard to find in their computer because there was a typo in the name. (Franz Marx)
So that day I earned my keep. When I arrived here, the ranger asked if I wanted them to take down the "camp host" sign so "people won't bother you." I was amazed at that sentiment. My primary service is to be here for the campers.
Even though I still am not gloriously asleep. And do not have any sweet things to eat with my coffee.
Have a great day, everyone!
Cut myself on the next haircut and nothing got better from there. I am extremely good at haircuts but nothing else, so that is why I don't work at a full service salon. I like to stick with what I am good at. Hopefully, my manager won't do that to me again!