Joan's Excellent Adventure
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:54 pmMy first camping weekend in my rig went well after my illustrious start on Thursday afternoon. I arrived at Oscar Scherer state park and warned the woman in the office that I was new at this so give me a large space, preferably where I cannot blow up any other campers. She did give me an easy space to back into and told me to call her if I encountered any problems. I called with 10 minutes of parking my rig. My electric isn't working. She walked me through a checklist over the phone but decided to send "John", the camp host over to see if he could help out. Before John arrived, I had already figured out that I needed to switch the circuit breakers in the electrical box from 20 amp to 30. So when John arrived I was already chilling down with a/c blasting. John asked if I had hooked up my water. What water? I don't see any hookups for water. John looked in the shrubbery alongside my campsite and found the faucet. He put my flow adapter on my brand new hose, hooked it all up, gave me some pointers about putting borax in my cubbies to keep out bugs and to keep all cubbies and openings closed to keep out snakes. SNAKES!!!!! I did not sleep that night listening for every rustle.
My friend Laraine and her husband brought over a wonderful chicken supper on Friday evening. My friend Judy brought over two bottles of champagne. My two daughters brought beer. I already had about four bottles of other wine in the RV. Needless to say, we had a good time. I had left the campground on Friday to get the new arm installed on my awning, so I had the awning out when everyone arrived. Later in the dark, after all that alcohol, the same arm jammed while trying to get the awning to roll up but daughters and I got it unstuck. Saturday was a three mile hike through the park with my friends and then I was left to camp with Maggie (she was not very happy this weekend, even shrugging out of her harness at one point and taking off down the road. Luckily two bikers herded her back to me).
I put the awning out again but a passing camper noticed me doing it and ran over to assist. I waited until no one was around later in the evening to take it down. After all, I need to be able to do it alone. No problems. I had figured out why it jammed and avoided that issue. This morning was the new experience of dumping my tanks.
All in all, a successful weekend with a few hiccups. Oh, the internet connection there was awful. Very slow, so I went without. Need to equip the RV with items I wished I had had, stock up and next weekend my youngest daughter Mandy and I will head for upstate NY for two weeks. I am wondering why I am so tired after my relaxing weekend camping.
My friend Laraine and her husband brought over a wonderful chicken supper on Friday evening. My friend Judy brought over two bottles of champagne. My two daughters brought beer. I already had about four bottles of other wine in the RV. Needless to say, we had a good time. I had left the campground on Friday to get the new arm installed on my awning, so I had the awning out when everyone arrived. Later in the dark, after all that alcohol, the same arm jammed while trying to get the awning to roll up but daughters and I got it unstuck. Saturday was a three mile hike through the park with my friends and then I was left to camp with Maggie (she was not very happy this weekend, even shrugging out of her harness at one point and taking off down the road. Luckily two bikers herded her back to me).
I put the awning out again but a passing camper noticed me doing it and ran over to assist. I waited until no one was around later in the evening to take it down. After all, I need to be able to do it alone. No problems. I had figured out why it jammed and avoided that issue. This morning was the new experience of dumping my tanks.
All in all, a successful weekend with a few hiccups. Oh, the internet connection there was awful. Very slow, so I went without. Need to equip the RV with items I wished I had had, stock up and next weekend my youngest daughter Mandy and I will head for upstate NY for two weeks. I am wondering why I am so tired after my relaxing weekend camping.
and that is a good idea to ask your self what might I need that I'm not willing to buy...we live in ours full time so if I forget it hmmm I'm in trouble...we pulled away with the steps being down long story made short ended up buying 4 tires not due to the steps but when putting them up realized how bad they were...