Oh, the work getting ready for this trip was SO much more than I envisioned this time last week! I said I was going to be super organized this time. As my friend Marion said…God giggles. After going to sleep at 2:00, I woke up yesterday morning at 6:00 to get the day started. The camper was piled with tools, sawdust, trash, and the bedding from the queen sized bed, so my first order of the day was to clean it out so I’d have the space to stock the stuff we really needed to take.
I went in the house at 7:00 and Mr. FixIt was up getting himself ready. We didn’t pack the truck the night before like we usually do because my sweet husband was indulging my hair-brained idea of accomplishing a camper remodel in five days. He’s a saint! This camping trip isn’t our first rodeo and overall, you take the same things each time. I suggested we just keep all the non perishables in the camper over the winter and save all the lugging in and out of the basement. Then, our little house on wheels will be ready at a moment’s notice to head wherever our hearts desire.
By the time we got everything loaded up and hitched the camper, it was going on noon. We hadn’t taken time to eat were starved so we stopped in town for gas and the Cracker Barrel by the highway for a very quick breakfast. We headed south on the interstate and we hadn’t gotten to Charleston when I was so sleepy, my head was nodding. I knew I needed to stretch out and take a nap and Mr. FixIt looked about as ragged as I did. So we pulled into a big Lowe’s parking lot and took a two hour nap! We never dreamed we would sleep like that. We could have slept for several more hours except for one thing….
The alarm on the truck went off. No one was near us…it just started blaring. I turned it off and looked at Mr. FixIt.
“God woke us up, right on time!”
We were both refreshed. We got back on the road at a reasonable time and stopped in Wytheville to get gas and a sandwich. We got to the campground at dusk, and there was a problem. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember the lady telling me that once they close the campground, they lock the gate and if you don’t have the code to the opener, you don’t get in. I thought she said 8:30 but it was actually 7:30! We were locked out.
It was dark, the office was closed and no one was answering the phone. We sat there trying to figure out what we could do when the guy that runs the tennis program came up on a golf cart and asked if he could help. He didn’t have the code either, but he attempted a couple of different numbers. They didn’t work. Right then, another camper came to the gate to get in and once he explained the situation to her, she was happy to let us pull in behind her.
Our site was easy to find and relatively easy to back into. It wasn’t level at all but it tilted in a direction that I could deal with. We were in the camper and ready for bed in twenty minutes.
Oh, and Mr. FixIt LOVES the camper! It’s so much more inviting with lots of floor space. The beds are a generous 30 inches. Combine that with the double recliner I installed last fall, the camper is really comfortable. It just feels feels much larger…like you can breathe.
Our campground is on a lake so I’m looking forward to the view with my cuppa RYZE this morning!
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”Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”“
Isaiah 30:21 NIV
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