Tuesday 11-11 … bad friend? ..Also tough trip start, but made it.

 

Picture of the day

Many years ago, a sailor home for a visit.  Sweet Sherry and Son Mark , on the right with Jack jr. taking the picture. This is on the porch of the first house we ever owned,  cost $3,000  in 1966 or there about.

SO for now:

I saw another of those crazy headlines:

Bad friends and how to lose them.

I sat and thought for a good while, Bad friends?  I personally cannot remember having a ‘bad’ friend, how can that be? I have had acquaintances, even shipmates, I preferred not to be around, so I intentionally avoided contact.

I can try hard and imagine how someone might have a ‘bad’ friend, but fortunately, I cannot remember one.

I am putting this blog entry together as we prepare to leave Florida heading for our home base in NC.  In this slack time we are thinking of finding a home between here (mid Florida) and the Georgia line.  I am looking in the Polatka and Live Oak areas.  Maybe even Jasper, FL do you like the town name Jasper?

Now we are in NC, one of the worst RV park ‘check-outs’  of our over 20 years of RV’ing.

A little back ground, we checked into the park in Eustis. The lady smiled ‘less’ than any park I can remember checking into. Evidently they have had problems with folks not leaving their sites in time. i.e. 11AM on check out day. She took much time to explain on checkout day if you are 15 minutes late, you are fined $30, and each 15 minutes until 4 are reached, then you owe for a full day.

Sherry laughed about that, since in nearly 25 years of full time that has never happened to us. Even he day before our departure a rep came by to remind us tomorrow is check out day.

To keep from stretching this out. WE did our preps the night before. The danged living room slide refused to come in. after much finagling, guessing, and tries we got it in. Ahhh we can rest.

Checkout morning, the coach refuses to start. YES! Wasting an hour, trying our car’s little battery with a jumper, along with my battery charger, we got it started!! Of course we were out long before ‘fine’ time. WE had a good trip and drove straight thru.

Upon arriving here, one more of the bad icing on the cake, our tow vehicle, our Honda CRV  would not start.

Son Jack Jr. has a jump kit and started the Honda and we got set up, HOWEVER that living room slide we had trouble with, refused to work.

BUT we did get in, and are behind our home, set up and glad to be on familiar ground.

This is just a check in and a chance to vent.  LOL

Nite Shipslog

 

PS.  Pretty tired, driving straight thru a little over 500 miles, after a tough start, we are beat...  Griping is an easy thing to do.  It is nice to be able to gripe with a smile after the fact.

LOL   ;-)

Love from NC