Life Is Good......... We Got Our Sewer Site!!!

Yesterday was a fun day. You will recall that we had arrived on Sunday just after noon. Upon check in, we received a windshield card displaying our check out date. The card read "Feb 8, 2008" but we had reservations here until Feb 17, 2008. I knew that the TT reservation agent had had to make numerous smaller reservations (2-3 days each) in order to get us our 2 weeks here. Turned out the park had not printed out consecutively dated reservations. I returned to the ranger station later Sunday evening while we walked Buddy to explain the situation and left a few minutes later with a freshly dated windshield card reading "Feb 17, 2008". This wasn't a huge concern for us, but we have run into people whose reservations have been deleted from the computer and they are left with no place to stay. Not a nice feeling.

It was hot yesterday!!! We hit 85F and played pickleball twice yesterday, morning and afternoon, so we definitely felt a little pooped out by the time supper time rolled around. It was a fun time though. In fact, there is a little mini tournament organized for next week that we both plan on entering. Nothing too competitive, just fun is all.

Here is how the sewer site assignments work. There are only so many sewer sites in the park. When one arrives here, you are directed to a non sewer site and your name goes on a list for sewer sites. Check out time is noon at the latest. Everyday, a list of freshly vacated sewer sites is posted at the ranger station. It is up to the campers to scope out which of these sites they prefer. Then at 1 pm, there is a little meeting across from the ranger station for all those looking for a sewer site. The people waiting the longest have first choice and so on.

We wrote down all the empty sewer sites and then road our bikes around to check them all out. From the dozen or so sites available, we narrowed it down to about 6 sites that we liked. Available sites are erased from a white board as they are assigned. I think we settled for the fifth site on our list. Turns out we are again on Gopher Lane, right across from where we were last time, now in site G5.

Once we got our sewer site, we hustled back to the Bounder, packed up and then joined in on the afternoon motorhome shuffle to sewered sites. It took a little jockeying to get us level this time but we are all set up. Our site faces south though, meaning our sitting area outside and our windshield receive the full effect of the afternoon sunshine. Things get pretty toasty with no cloud cover. We'll take a run into Walmart today to pick up some tie downs for our new sunshade and we'll be all set.

For the non RVers out there reading this, we have two 90 gallon holding tanks on our Bounder, the black tank for the toilet and the grey tank for sink and washer water. Both drain from a common fitting requiring a sewer hose to be run from the fitting to the sewer. We can normally last a week or more on the black tank before emptying but with showers, dishes, laundry, etc, only about 4 days on the grey tank. The biggest concern for us was the laundry. We play pickleball daily, sometimes twice daily, so you can imagine how quickly the laundry piles up. Chris loves our washer/dryer because we don't have to spend time sitting in laudromats. Whatever works right!

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