Daily Archives: October 7, 2015
All Done . . .
The frack, that is.
Now we just wait and see what we’re going to do. We’ve had a couple of encouraging signs that we might be moving to the new frack site just up the road, but nothing concrete so far.
And if we don’t move, we’ve been told that they will be here at this site doing completion for about a month, which also wouldn’t be bad. And would get us close to our preferred ‘Sunday before Thanksgiving heading back to Houston’ thing. And if things run long as they usually seem to, that might put us right in the money.
But we’ll see. As they say, the only thing constant is change.
Back this past June-July while we were at the Verde Valley Thousand Trails in Arizona, I mentioned the Ready, Camp, Go card here in the blog. We’re going to be doing the East Coast next year, and since our TT membership doesn’t give us any TT parks north of New Jersey, I was looking to use the RCG card to add a number of TT and Encore parks in that area.
I talked it over with the lady at the Verde Valley TT office, and I got a list of all the new parks I would be able to access. And it all looked good. But since the pass was only good for one year, I decided to wait until this fall to purchase it, so I would have more use of it.
At the time the RCG card was open to any RV’er. You did not have to be a TT member. But when I went to the RCG website earlier this week to purchase the card, I found something different. Where in July I found a list of the 4 different RCG membership levels, now I found a page that said it was only for ‘eligible Thousand Trails members’, and a phone number to call.
It turns out now that to be ‘eligible’ for a RCG card, you have to have an Elite or higher Thousand Trails membership, and that I could upgrade my present Alliance TT membership to Elite for only $5000.00 (well, $4995.00 to be exact). Or an Elite Connections upgrade for only $7000.00 (well, $6 . . . you know).
When I ask her what I would get for my extra $5 to $7000, she said I could stay three weeks, and now go park to park. I said the three weeks is OK, but we can already go park to park. Then she said you can book 180 days in advance. I told her that I can already book 210 days in advance. (In August I booked us back and forth between Lake Conroe and Colorado River until the first part of March) At this point she started to run out of steam.
I asked if we got any more free days (we get 50 now) and she said no. She then listed all the new parks that I would get, and it wasn’t as many as I would have gotten with the original RCG card, since it included Encore parks and others.
For us, the only advantage would be the three week stays, but not by much. The only time it would be nice would be when we are going back and forth between Lake Conroe and Colorado River during the winter, and if you crunch the numbers it means that we would move 3 times instead of 5 during the three months. This means we would save about $100 dollars in diesel.
So in 50 years (or 70) we’d break even. I don’t think so.
So, in tomorrow’s blog, I’ll recount the saga of my trying to purchase a Northeast Zone pass to augment our East Coast trip.
It’s not pretty.
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Thought for the Day:
There is no greater pain a man can suffer than to have insight into much and control over nothing. – Herodotus
I know how he feels. If everyone listened to me, or to Nick, the world would be a much better place, believe me.
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