Friday, March 21, 2014

The night before, we told Laurie and Bob to be ready to leave at 7 AM which Laurie turned her nose up at. After we had called it a night and were in our individual motor-coaches George told me to text Laurie and tell her we would leave at 8 AM instead. So in the morning, motor-coaches were leaving left and right. The fields had finally dried out and surprisingly there was "frost on the pumpkin" or in this case the SUV. For years when the children were young they always heard me use that term, and they never knew it was just a saying, rather than the literal meaning that frost was actually on a pumpkin. My older daughter just found this out recently within the past year when there wasn't any pumpkin in sight. We both left the Georgia Fairgrounds, with us in the lead as we were headed to our next destination which was a campground George had seen advertised on the way down. It had a hot tub which is a big draw for George. While driving, another Motor-coach passenger was yelling something out the window, so we pulled over and George looked over the SUV and motor-coach and didn't see anything. I forgot to mention that George bought a tire monitoring system. So we already knew there was a problem with one of the tires on the SUV, as there was a screw in it, but it was holding air. So later, when the GPS took us through this little squeedunk town, while we were stopped at a traffic light one of our bay doors opened. Laurie jumped out of their RV and saved the day and closed the door. Unfortunately, she injured her knee as their coach's steps didn't come out and she jumped from the door landing to the ground hard. I have a Flying J / Pilot / RV Plus Card which I have a $200.00 credit plus we get 6¢ off the advertised price. However the diesel prices in Georgia and South Carolina were more than we wanted to spend at that station. With the help of Gas Buddy, Laurie picked out a diesel station where we both got diesel. While there I also bought two, 2 liter bottles of Dr. Pepper. Later we did stop at a a Pilot/Flying J but to get lunch at a Wendy's. Laurie stayed in the coach as her knee was swollen, and Bob bought vanilla Frosties. I was running a fever but I had a chicken sandwich which tasted good. The trip up to the campground in North Carolina was 514 miles and we rolled in at 7 PM and we were able to get two pull-through sites. After dinner we all decided to go to the hot-tub. On the way, we met April, a woman we had all met down at Perry who was a glass blower from Franklinville, NJ. She had a Phaeton made by Tiffin, and she was extremely knowledgeable with regards to the motor-coach that Laurie and Bob were interested in buying. She followed us to the hot-tub and while we went in, she chatted with us from the side. After a bit two bearded North Carolina sibling natives arrived. It was very interesting talking to them. One was celebrating his 21st birthday. They were in the area to catch stripers which is some kind of fish. The older one had been a game warden until he got married and moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he was a teacher. He and his brother had started farming and they were interested in raising cattle. April also raised cattle. I asked if they had problems with their calves dieing and she said no. The reason I asked was one of my friends who raises cattle for a living had a rash of calves die due to the extreme cold and March snows. On Facebook, I just saw that she lost another calf whom she had named Clover. April left to go back to her motor-coach and we stayed another half hour when I stated I was turning into a raisin. And that's when we all left to go back to our motor-coaches.