A Lot of Irons in the Fire

For starters, we arrived at our new site at the Thousand Trails in Orlando early in the afternoon. It is a very large Preserve, and we selected site #F60, which is an end site, and one that has some extra room to spread out:

We left the truck hitched to the 5th wheel expecting to take it into Camping World today for the jacks installation. Not only that, but the problem is getting worse to the point that the one jack slowly collapses when standing alone with the weight of the rig. We could feel the left front corner of the rig sinking the last 2 days in Wauchula. Just when we think the end is in sight, the door gets slammed again. We received a call from Camping World at around 4 PM telling us that the jack that was sent from Lippert is a stabilizing jack, and not a landing gear jack. I went through the roof, and am still stuck to the ceiling over this. How can they send the wrong jack after performing all the tests, taking all the photos and having so many discussions about the problem? Is there room in this world for all this incompetency? I fired off an eMail to Doubletree about the problem and hope that they can get some action for us. Enough on that for now.

I received an eMail with 16 pages of instructions and forms to bring to my meeting on Friday at Disney World. I'm still not sure how many hours I will be working since the job has me working in a couple different areas. I do know that it starts immediately - probably Monday - and I will work until April 2nd. I'm glad that there is an opportunity to break into the seasonal workforce since that probably means I can return each year if I decide to work here again. We have to find something for Josie until she too can get involved at Disney at some point. I'm anxious to have the meeting tomorrow so that all the details will be known.

The other piece of good news was a phone call from the Bethpage Camp-Resort asking us to become part of their team for this summer. We knew that our interview went well last week at the Tampa show, and the gentleman that called us indicated that they were anxious to "nail down" their staff for the season. I would work at the front gate, and Josie would work in the office doing registrations and Check-ins. We would have the same days off, work an average of 32-35 hours per week, have a full hookup site, including wi-fi and cable, and paid a bonus at the end of the summer. They asked us to start in mid April and work through October, if possible. Right now, we are thinking that we will do it. It gives us a chance to stay on the East coast for the summer which is something we wanted to try. We wanted to return to Cody again, but that opportunity will probably still be there for us next year if we want to go back. It's also a better situation for us if we decide to return to Amazon in Campbellsville. That is a remote possibility right now, based on our memory of the winter weather there.

Our most pressing problems right now are, of course, the jacks repair and finding a long term space between next week and the first of April that won't cost us an arm and a leg. That's it for now...