Pulling Out

Yesterday was a frustrating day for us. We had hoped to receive two checks before we left here so we could save a trip back to the post office and the campground after we leave. The first one, the reimbursement for our water pump warranty work, was mailed on Thursday, instead of Monday as they told us. The second one was the important one - my paycheck - that was not received at the campground yesterday as scheduled. They say that it should come today, but we are leaving today. We will hang on until just after noon before we leave in hopes that it arrives. It probably isn't that big a deal anyway, since we are moving only about 20 miles from here.

Everything else is about ready to go. It doesn't take too long to prepare the inside. It is just a matter of putting things in drawers or cabinets and out of the way. It is always a surprise when we arrive at a new campground and come inside the fifth wheel to begin setting up. Almost always, there is at least one thing we either forgot to put away, or didn't secure well enough and it is lying on the floor. We have been lucky so far - nothing has been broken yet in any of the moves. The closest we came was with my printer which sits on the top of the dresser in the bedroom. We normally sit it on the bed that moves up under the dresser when that slide out is closed. When we moved from our night on the Colorado River to Ocotillo Wells, we forgot to unplug it and place it on the bed. When we got to Ocotillo Wells and opened the slide, it fell down to the floor. All we had to do was unplug it and it would still have ended up on the bed. Fortunately, nothing broke and it works fine.

There isn't much else to write about now, so we'll close this entry for the day and let you know about the move tomorrow...