Taking Care of Business

The highest priority yesterday was to find out how soon we could get the drug test out of the way at Amazon. It didn't take long, as they responded to my message right away that we were here and they invited us over to the complex to take the drug test. This year, they administer the test on site, as opposed to going to a laboratory for a blood test as we did last year. The new procedure is just taking a swab sample of saliva and sending it off to the lab for testing, which takes up to 72 hours to provide results. Our target to begin working is the end of the week - July 1. We also discovered that there will only be around 30 couples working this pilot program this year, and we should be able to get our desired schedule.

Our second priority was to finalize our campground choice for the rest of the year. There were 5 other locations that are used by Amazon for workampers. One of them was the State Park we used last year which was very nice, but only had 30 amp electric hookups (vs the 50 amp we have here), and there were no sewer hookups - remember the "honey wagon" scenario? We pretty much eliminated that one right away. One of the others was a very quiet, and nice campground that was about 5 miles from Amazon and very close to the State Park. The only problem with that one was that it is also a horse stable where folks come to board their horses and ride them during their stay. We didn't know if that would create an offensive odor while there or not. Even though it had nice, large sites, it wasn't as new and clean as Heartland, where we are now. The others were eliminated for various other reasons - small spaces, too far away or too expensive. We will be glad we have the convenience of being across the street from work and also being so close to downtown where we will do all our shopping. So it is here where we will stay.

There are many day trips we can take to some nice places we missed the last time we were here. Two of them are in Louisville - the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory and the Churchill Downs race track that recently was damaged by a tornado. Both of those places are high on our list of places to go. Some of the others are; Mammoth Cave National Park, National Corvette Museum, Kentucky Horse Park, Maker's Mark Distillery and, of course, Nashville. We hope to get to as many of those as we can while here.

So far, we have had lousy weather - rain. It is still damp and dreary this morning, so we will figure out some place for us to go where it doesn't matter. Too bad there are no casinos nearby...