This is the point in the trip when I say to myself…”What on earth was I thinking??? I’m too old for this!” I got a decent start yesterday. There was a portion of the drive with no rain. And, there was a goodly portion where I thought maybe I’d made a wrong turn and was in a car wash! Holy cats!!! Of course, you have to slow WAY down, which adds time to your trip but give you a better chance of actually making it. Of course, if the truckers had their way, they would have used cow catchers on the front of their trucks to just move us slow pokes out of the way. Relaxing, it was not.
I killed time by asking Siri to read me a story. The folks who program her have a great sense of humor and I soon found myself laughing out loud with delight. It’s the simple things. The sky lightened up in the middle of the day and I thought just maybe we were home free. But, not so much. The sky on the horizon got darker and darker the closer I got to the campground. I pulled into a grocery store to pick up something for supper. Mac and cheese I could heat up in the microwave. And a “superfoods salad”. Comfort balanced with healthy.
As soon as I came out of the store, the sky opened with a vengeance. And, of course, when you are parking a camper, you have to park way out on the periphery. I waited a while but it didn’t look like it was going to ease up any time soon so I made a made dash for the truck. The upside was, the rain wasn’t freezing like a Colorado rain, so I was ok. I got to the campground and went into the office to sign in. There was a woman ahead of me, and by the time I got checked in, there was a line of campers out on the road. Oh, right…this is Memorial Day Weekend! Welcome to camping season!
The owner escorted me to my site, a pull though, than you God! I waved him off and just sat there till the rain slacked up a bit. It finally did and I got the camper set up. I am getting the hang of doing it quicker, but its still a king-sized pain in the patoot and it’s not going to work out for me. It’s one thing if you are going to a campsite and staying for a week or two. It’s quite a different deal if you are moving every day. NOT convenient for that kind of camping, but still a very cool camper overall.
I’d have to say, the trip home is always more challenging. I’m tired. I’m cranky. I’m a month older. I haven’t had a shower in five days and I have to drive with me in the truck! I’m leaving this morning in time to get the camper to the dealership to fix what has now become a laundry list of things that shouldn’t need fixing on a brand new camper. I’ll gently yet persuasively give them a piece of my mind. I’ve been told I have a way of telling people to go to H E double toothpicks and they don’t seem to mind the trip. Maybe I can pull that off again!
Mr. FixIt is waiting for me at home!
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“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV