Almost Full

As far as we know, there is only one more class of workampers arriving to be trained at Amazon. There are only about 5 spaces left in the campground and they are going to be taken within the next week or so. Here are the shots of the before and after of the campground, from the time we arrived in late June (6/26):

until yesterday (10/18):

There are 130 spaces in the park and the owners are (financially) healthy again. Amazon will pay the owners $400 per month for each space used by the workampers. That totals $52,000 each month. Amazon also pays at least 5 other campgrounds in the area for spaces taken by workampers, so the investment that Amazon makes in the workamper program is huge. We've heard a number of 600+ workampers for the peak season this year.

So far it has been relatively quiet in the campground. That is a result of the mixture of night shift workers and day workers. Most people are considerate of the others who are working different shifts and the noise is kept to a minimum. The biggest problem we have discovered is the noise from occasional barking dogs whose owners are working and can't shut them up.

It's a good thing we didn't plan a trip for yesterday. Thunderstorms arrived in the afternoon and dumped almost 1" of rain on us for the day. We lost power for a brief time and the satellite signal a few times for short periods. Other than that, we relaxed and did very little besides catch up on recorded TV shows for the week. We did make some progress on cleaning chores, but the laundry duty was postponed until today.

We are looking more seriously at a trip to Puerto Rico in January. The trip can almost be entirely paid for out of our year end bonus from Amazon. The only holdup from planning the trip for sure is waiting to hear from the Phoenix Flower Shop on when, if at all, they would want Josie to work during the winter. All of our planning can go forward once we hear from them. That's about it for now...