A Trifecta of Bad . . .
Jan and I pulled out of our site here at Cherokee Landing Thousand Trails about 9:45, bidding a not-fond adieu to probably the nicest bad park we’ve ever stayed at, especially for two whole weeks.
We’ve certainly stayed in worst places, much worse in fact. But only for one night, not fourteen. But as nice as the basic park is, i.e. wooded sites, but still with satellite access, fairly level, quiet, and not much traffic, overall, it sucked.
But Cherokee Landing is a Trifecta of Bad. Bad power, bad water pressure, and bad Internet. I’ve already mentioned the ‘fake’ 50 amp pedestals, consisting of a 50 amp receptacle connected to a 30 amp, actually three 30 amp breakers in series between the main breaker panel, the ‘real’ 30 amp box, and the ‘fake’ 30 amp box.
And, believe it or not, some people actually end up paying an extra $3 per night for this ‘50’ amp service, though we didn’t have to.
As far as the water pressure, according to my pressure meter, we were getting between 15 and 20 psi, the lowest I’ve ever seen at a park. To be sure it wasn’t just our site, I tested the sites on either side of us with the same results.
The pressure was so low that if I turned our Oxygenic shower nozzle upside down, the water wouldn’t even fountain up, but just run down the sides. So after a day or so of this, we started just using our internal water and our pump. Much better. But it would take over an hour to refill the 100 gallon tank from the shore water because of the low pressure. Just pitiful.
I realized I can’t really blame the park for the bad Internet, but it was just one more thing that was a constant irritation.
OK, so I’m finished ranting now.
As we had planned, we pulled into the Cracker Barrel in Corinth, MS about 10:30 to have breakfast. Although they had RV spaces, they weren’t big enough for us to fit. So we parked across about 6-8 spaces along the very back of the lot. Luckily they have a really big parking lot, so we weren’t putting anyone out. We of course left the genset running to keep Mister comfortable while we were eating.
Finishing up, we were back on the road about 11:30 for the last 115 miles. I did get a chance to see my new AC voltmeter in action.
As I said, I can see whether or not the genset is running from the dashboard, but not that the transfer switch is putting power to the coach. So this let’s me monitor that.
We pulled into the Northgate RV Travel Park about 1:45 and got set up. We’ll plan on being here until Thursday visiting relatives. Then it’s on to Gulf Shores for a week.
Really looking forward to both visits.
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