It's windy outside. So, windy little Lucy (that'd be the trailer) is rockin' and rollin' with every blast that hits her and we're pretty certain there won't be Pickle Ball this morning. Sigh. I'm just glad I checked the weather forecast before going to bed last night and figured I'd rather take the awning down then, in the peaceful quiet evening in the light of the blood moon, instead or wrestling it in like a wild parachute in gusts of 70MPH.. much better sleep as a result. This mornings forecast says the winds are going to carry on until Wednesday which may put a crimp in our plans to leave tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. We shall see what the wind gods decide.
Guess. I should back up a bit here.... Hi everyone, we're finally back to Desert Hot Springs where we left Lucy and Ricky (that'd be the truck) in a small storage lot inside the Catalina Spa RV Resort. Our flight landed at 1545 hrs. And friends picked us up and hustled us over to the resort in time to get there before the storage lot closed. The 'rig' was fine when we got here. Truck started first try and all six wheels turned when asked to... so off we went to our assigned slip...er I mean site. Unfortunately the site was not 'to our taste'. Why? You might ask. Well for starters it was very narrow and overshadowed by a huge tree on one side. The other side was the backside of a building with an air conditioner running full tilt boogey. And, it was definitely not the site we had reserved which was much nicer, larger and with a view. So, off to the office I trotted to beg, plead, say "please" real nice and ask for a different site.
Thankfully the gal in the office was very nice and understood my plea. She found us another site. The late afternoon sun was sinking as we made the approach and entry to the new site. It was in a much nicer location and we were very pleased with our success. We quickly set up the awning, chairs and little table so as to enjoy a celebratory glass of wine with our friends. It was about then Kathy decided to plug us in... well, actually, it was Lucy she went to pub in. "We" were fine :-)
Hmrph. Turns out we couldn't plug in. There were no 'guts' in the pillar to plug into. We looked around for an available outlet in a neighbouring site... no luck. Back I trotted to the office to explain our situation. I'll only say here that the office seems to be undergoing some reorganization (if they're not, they should be). Three different people, all apparently working off different 'floor plans' with different data, couldn't agree on what sites were already taken, about to be taken, reserved, or available. They finally picked one that maybe or might be available in the morning IF we wanted to move. The IF was because one of the fixes was to wait for the store to open in the morning and the maintenance guy would buy a splitter so we could plug into the neighbours working pedestal. Oh, forgot to mention... none of them had any idea there was a slight problem with the power in our site.
The final result? We had a quiet night and a lovely sleep in our very nice (but powerless) site. Woke up yesterday (Sunday) and found out when the store finally opened at noon, they had no splitters. Being Sunday, none of the RV stores were open and tomorrow (today) is a holiday so the RV stores may or may not be open. We shall see. We have decided a splitter might be a good thing to add to our inventory so will be off this morning in hunt of one.
Believe it or not, one of our neighbours, staying in a rig not much bigger than ours (Lucy is a Casita 17 which means she's a 15' trailer on a 17' trailer) offered to help us out with a little power to charge up our battery. He's plugged in to his power pedestal and we're plugged in to his trailer. Nice guy.
And so, that's a long winded way of saying we are fine. We arrived safely, truck and trailer were none the worse for wear, we've had fun visits with dear friends, and we're about to start tidying truck and trailer to improve our living space for the next couple months.
Please know our thoughts are with friends and family at home, as well as our readers we haven't met yet, and we wish all of you a peaceful day (with less wind than we are experiencing right now :-). Adios for now. CJ
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