Continuing On…

This is a long post so you may want to go get a cup of coffee.

Thanks to all of you for the thoughts & prayers for Poodums. Still no word, but we keep hoping someone will find her or she will allow someone to find her.

We are just south of Marysville, CA now & will be for another week. Not much to see or do around this Thousand Trails, but we are getting our feet wet getting used to our new lifestyle.

We pull in to the Thousand Trails campground on the worst Tuesday of my life. Poods gone, we have been lost because the GPS is taking us the long back roads way, we have to wait a half hour for the Ranger to get back from dinner, no one at the campground has answered our calls for better directions, & we are told the campsites are self chosen. Did I mention NO CABLE or WIFI at each campsite?

OK, 8 pm at night the darkness is coming fast & we circle looking for the perfect spot. In section A the sites have the rigs practically sitting in each others laps & the sewer hook-ups are only allowed to be used certain days of the week depending on your campsite’s number.

B & C section is dry camp, D has electric & water but no sewer hook ups but bigger sites.

9 pm we have a site in the D section because we tried to squeeze in A section to no avail since it IS getting dark. We back in & go to make camp...BUT WAIT...if a day couldn’t get any worse we discover we can not electrically put out the tip out, which by the way is blocking the way to the bathroom & I have to pee!

Rod discovers we have blown the fuse and...wait for it...we are in the middle of no where and WE HAVE NO EXTRA FUSES. We unhitch the trailer & start back up to Marysville at 9:30 pm to find a place selling fuses. About 6 miles towards Marysville we do find a Chevron open that has fuses.

We finally get the tip out out, & get settled in about 10 pm. That was just the first day of our new life. Every day before was our “vacation” remember.

I really felt cursed that day or maybe I was being punished for always saying I was a recovering Cathoholic or saying how things were going so great & telling everyone about our new life we were venturing out & maybe being a bit too boastful? I don’t know, but Tuesday last I was ready to go home. Oh wait, we have no home to go back to.

I am a lot better now. We went to the Adult Lodge the next day while I did laundry & used their WiFi, even though it was very slow, watched some TV & I traded some books for new books.

I wanted to leave where we were before the week was up because to me roughing it is no TV or WiFi, but when you add in no sewer hookups then I say we are way, way roughing it.

When we finished laundry & went back to the trailer, Rod looked at the TV & saw we had an antennae boost & did a channel search & OMG we get TV. So I said let’s stay here another week since we have TV.

So here we are...I even took a bead class on Friday & made a bracelet. We went to dinner with some friends at the Indian Casino near Roseville & had a BBQ.

So as you can see, it will be OK. There will always be ups & downs, but please whoever is still listening to me, just not all in one day?