Closing Out The Week

It sure was nice to see the end of the day yesterday. It was another day similar to Saturday of just looking for odds and ends to do as a result of not having any access to the front desk computers. Josie is getting more comfortable on her terminal, although she still uses someone else's password and is still frustrated by all the different rates. Of course, even if there was another terminal available, I wouldn't be using it without any passwords. In the beginning, I was using someone else's passwords until they expired.

We went into town in Big Pine Key after work and had dinner at the Mexican restaurant there. It was OK, but it was closer to the food in an Asian restaurant. It seems that this restaurant is owned by the same people that have the Chinese restaurant in town - which we have recently tried - and the food definitely had the influence of the Chinese owners. The rice was like the Chinese rice and the enchiladas had a sauce that was not Mexican, and they had no cheese on the top. Like I said, it was OK, but not outstanding. It was also expensive for Mexican food.

There are some things that we will do in Marathon today. Josie still needs a haircut and there are a couple of beaches we heard about that we will check out. There also is a campground - located about 15 miles the other way toward Key West - that we want to check out on our days off. Supposedly, it has a much nicer campground area than ours and has only 81 spaces - almost all of which are on the water. It will be interesting to see. We'll probably fill in with some other relaxing trips that will help us forget the stress at work that has been felt the last 2 weeks.

We are finding out that other people have left here after a short time for the same reasons we are going to leave. It seems that most problems are created by the corporation - Equity Lifestyle Properties - and not the local management decisions (or lack of decisions). It is a clear warning to us for future opportunities in the parks operated by this company. We seem to have much better experiences at privately owned parks. We will file that little tidbit in our "future" file. We'll see how it goes today...