What A Day!

The day actually started last night when we hooked up the RV to the truck for the first time in 4 years. At one time we had that down pretty good and I must say that after all this time we still have a good system.  We had to leave very early this morning so we took showers last night and did everything we could so this morning all we'd have to do was get up and dressed and be on our way. What we had not considered was the incline the RV would be in overnight.  It was quite steep! Imagine trying to walk around inside the RV... it was wild! There was no way we could sleep on our bed in the normal fashion.  We would have both rolled off into the floor.  So we slept sideways across the bed.  I normally have a great deal of difficulty sleeping if we are not perfectly level so I was concerned.  At least our heads would be higher than our feet and we wouldn't roll off.  We must have been extra tired because we both slept well thru the night.  We were up early and on the road by 6:30am.  We had about a 30 mile drive to Camping World and the old tires we were having replaced were not looking good.  We were both a little concerned and prayed we'd make it safely. Along the way we stopped off at a truck stop to have the rig weighed.  We knew we had added weight with the hardwood flooring and other items but had taken care to get rid of as much stuff as possible.  Unfortunately we were overweight. What it boils down to is I didn't get my washer/dryer.  Needless to say I am disappointed. That means back to going to laundry mats which I absolutely hate.  Oh well... what can I say?  We did get the new tires installed as well as the fancy satellite dish.  We bought the Winegard Travl'r and it is mounted to the roof top.  It is very simple and quick, just one push of the button and it automatically locates and locks onto the satellites. Worth every penny!!!  David and I have had our share of trying to locate satellites with a dish on a tripod.  Oh the headaches that always was for us. There will likely be times we'll still have to use that method when we park in a heavily treed area but at least it won't be all the time. Now we need to find about 700 pounds to get rid of.  I don't understand all the weights, there are three different ones and apparently one of them is 700 pounds too much and has to do with the truck and weight of it with the hitch.  I'm thinking David may need to get rid of his big tool box and all those tools he thinks he needs.  Surely he can scale down to the necessities or find tools that are of multi use.  I know he's got way more than is required and tools are heavy! That's the only place I can think of where we can reduce weight.   Anyway, hooking and unhooking and rehooking and then leaving the RV behind to get the work done then driving back to the RV park this afternoon and set up again was a lot of physical work on these two old bodies. We opted not to pull under the awning this time around so we could use our new satellite dish so that meant backing into the site where our barn was located.  Oh, and today the mover finally came and moved the barn for the lady who bought it several weeks ago.  We were worried he was never going to come after promises day after day and still a no show.  But it is gone now and we are occupying the site.  After we dropped the RV off at Camping World this morning we went out to breakfast at Denny's then decided to drive on to the Cowpens National Battlefield to buy our National Park Passports.  We bought them and had them stamped.  Hoping that is the first of many, many National Parks we will visit in the coming years on our travels.  While at Cowpens I got very sick.  Not sure what was going on, but fairly sure it was something I ate at Denny's.  I wasn't able to enjoy our time at the park and we didn't get to do much of anything there.  Good thing we'd been there before and at least we got our passports and got them stamped before I got sick.  So now we are in our site here at the lake and will remain here for the next week.  We are set up and enjoying a new view and are completely wiped out.  It may be an early night.