Our RV Adventures

Wednesday afternoon I sent off our absentee ballot requests to the registrar in Madison, SD via a Flat Rate Priority Mail Envelope. And lo and behold, it was delivered this morning at 8am.

Maybe the Post Office should just ship everything Priority Mail. Two days from Virginia to South Dakota is pretty good.

We had planned to drive down to the Gloucester area and sightsee. But when we got up about 8am it was pouring down rain and had been for an hour or so. So after checking with Nick, and confirming the weather said it would rain all day, we went back to bed. We’ll try it again tomorrow

Only to wake about 10:30 and find it bright and sunny outside.

WTH?

Oh, well. There’s still tomorrow.

For lunch, since we were out of leftovers, Jan fixed cheese toast, and then we finished it off with a slice of Miss Terry’s delicious Pumpkin-Cinnamon Bread.  Yumm!

A little later while Nick and I were outside talking, Charlie Kitchens walked over from a nearby site to say hello. His wife reads both our blogs and they actually stopped off here due to our blogging, although they thought we had already moved on.

About 3:30 I called the Bass Lake RV Park in Dillon, SC to check if they would have a couple of sites available for us on Sunday night. This will be our stopover point on our way down to Savannah.

It’s also only about 5 miles away from South of the Border, a famous tourist trap since 1949. Never let it be said that we would pass up a place like this. The name refers to the fact that the place is just south of the North Carolina / South Carolina border.

South of the Border does have an RV park, but it’s almost twice as much as the Passport American park right down the road.

We all headed out for dinner about 4:30. On our way over to Colonial Beach we checked out the local Moose Lodge to see if they had any RV parking available. There were two RV’s parked there but no hookups, so no such luck.

Our destination for dinner was the Dockside Restaurant, the same place we ate our first night here.

After checking the menu I ordered the Andouille Sausage appetizer with Creole Mustard. Very spicy and very good.

After that Jan and I split the Fried Seafood Platter because we wanted to have room for desert – the Pumpkin Cheesecake for Jan and the Whiskey Glazed Apple Cake for me.

And I’m glad we did. Both were really delicious, especially my Apple Cake. As much as Jan likes pumpkin anything, I think she was gazing wistfully at my Apple Cake.

Tomorrow we’re going to try our Gloucester trip again, so we’ll see how it goes. The weather is supposed to be better, but of course they were wrong this morning so who knows.

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Thought for the Day:

Apparently, free speech is only allowed until someone else doesn’t like it.

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Today was another nice, quiet day. You can never have too many.

The park maintenance guy came back to tell us the water was back on for a while so we could top off our tanks if we needed to. He said the backhoe man was coming this afternoon but didn’t know when it would be fixed.

We’ve all been using our onboard water supply since day before yesterday, but we still had over a half a tank left after one wash load and 4 showers, but topped off anyway.

I forgot to mention the other day that Janis Thomas came by Tuesday night to drop off some delicious candy before they headed Wednesday morning for North Carolina.

Thanks, Janis. You too, Lenny.

A little later I talked to Galveston Bay RV Park to confirm that we would be arriving there one month from today, and to be sure they would have a space for us for the winter.

Next I spent some time cleaning up after Mister’s latest box devouring episode.

I’ve mentioned before that Mister loves cardboard boxes. He likes to cram into them  and then he starts eating them. Well, not really eating them, he just tears off chunks and then spits them out. Over a period of a week or so, he’ll eat a box down to the ground.

And of course that leaves little pieces of cardboard everywhere. So after throwing out the remains of the box, I swept and vacuumed up all the bits and pieces too.

Mister will just have to wait for the next Amazon order to come in.

About 4:15 Terry called and asked Jan and I to come over and meet some guests. Nancy and Bill Lee, and Sonja, Rose, and Rueben Bristow had dropped by to visit. It turns they’re blog readers and live right down the road from our park. They gave us some great places to visit before we leave on Sunday, and we really enjoyed getting to know them. Hopefully we’ll get to see them again the next time we’re in the area.

A little later we all headed up the road to Willey’s BBQ to have dinner. It turned out to be pretty good, except their version of ‘hot’ BBQ would get them laughed out of Texas. Even Nick didn’t think it was hot. But he said he’d come back, so that’s the mark of excellence.

Leaving Willey’s we drove about 10 miles north to the closest Wal-Mart up in King George. Everyone needs a Wal-Mart fix now and then.

The park guy stopped by again before we left and said the water was back on, so hopefully that’s fixed.

Tomorrow we’re going to head south about 60 miles to check Urbanna, Gloucester, and the Chesapeake Bay Thousand Trails.

Hopefully the 40% chance of rain will hold off. We’ll see.

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Thought for the Day:

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde

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