Six Days . . .
That’s how long they lasted this time.
The weather actually got a little better today, with the sun and some blue sky peaking through the clouds. Nice for a change.
But last night was another story. It was forecast for fog, but I think it got a little carried away. In fact between 2:30 and 3:30am, it was like a black curtain descended and I couldn’t more than about 10 feet in front of me. And even stranger, I could no longer see the 3 big light towers down at the site. It was just Black.
One of the tanker driver’s who came in about that time said he had trouble following the road. But after about 3:30 the really heavy stuff lifted and it was just normally foggy again.
But it does look like tomorrow night will start off several more days of rain, although it’s not supposed to be nearly as bad as last week, at least not around here.
With the cooler weather it has been nice not to have to run the AC. Sitting right behind us, it’s pretty loud, even on low fan. But it was heaven when it was 98°.
Readers will remember my frustration a few weeks ago trying to add some Thousand Trails parks in the northeast to our membership. We plan on attending the 56th Escapade up in Essex Junction, VT next July, and our present Alliance membership doesn’t have anything north of New Jersey.
When we were at the Verde Valley TT this past July I talked to a salesperson there about getting a Ready Camp Go card, and she said it would be perfect for that. It was $299 for a year, so I thought I’d wait until this fall to purchase it so we’d get the most use out of it.
But when I went to purchase one a few weeks ago, I found it was no longer available to Alliance members, or the general public for that matter, but you had to be an Elite or Elite Connections member to purchase one. And I could upgrade to an Elite membership for the measly sum of only $5000, well, $4995 anyway.
And then the $299 for the RCG card. I’m sorry, but for $5300 I can stay at a lot of RV parks.
Next I was told that I could add a Zone pass to my membership. At $545 it was more expensive than the RCG card, but it would do the job. Then I found out that, like the RCG card, the Zone Pass was now only available to Elite or Elite Connection members.
I’m starting to detect a pattern here.
Then a couple of days ago I logged into the Thousand Trails website to pay my dues, and I found this.
It says, “Thousand Trails is currently offering exciting new opportunities for you to enhance your membership benefits, such as. . .”
Now lets parse this out.
“…exciting new opportunities…” It’s plural, more than one.
Well that fits, because I see two different things being offered, a Camping Pass and an Elite membership.
Now then, “…enhance your membership benefits…” and the Bold is theirs.
So we’ve got “enhance”, as in add to something.
So I read this as saying you can add one of these ‘exciting new opportunities’ to your present TT membership. And this is reinforced by the fact that this is only seen inside the TT website, where you have to already be a member to log in.
But then when I called the number listed with the ad today, happy to have finally gotten this taken care of, I was told, “Oh, no. You can’t add the Camping Pass to your Alliance membership.”
Me: “Then who can buy a Camping Pass?”
Her: “You can’t be a member and buy a Camping Pass.”
Me: “So you can’t get one if you’re an Elite member?”
Her: “You can’t be a member and buy a Camping Pass.”
I’m starting to detect a pattern here.
Me: “Then why is if offered inside the TT website, where you have to be a member to log in?”
Her: “I don’t know, but you can’t be a member and buy a Camping Pass.”
I resisted the impulse to chant it along with her.
So, at this point I’m dead in the water again. I don’t think they like me anymore. Of course maybe they never did.
Since I got the charger port on the laptop fixed, Jan had been using it at night to watch some of her favorite old shows we have on DVD. Right now she’s going through the entire series of Northern Exposure. I bought her the entire set for Christmas 2009, but I think this is the first time she’s had a chance to watch it the whole thing at once.
Northern Exposure – The Complete Series
In 2008 on our way to Alaska we stopped and visited Roselyn, WA where NE was filmed. And it’s all still there, The Brick, Ruth Anne’s store, Dr. Fleishman’s office, the Café, and the KBHR radio station.
Here’s a blog post I did about our visit.
Check it out. There’s even some Mister stuff there.
Six Days. My second pair of expensive ($6.50 a pair) boot laces made from cheap cow parts from India (they worship them and then turn them in to shoelaces), lasted only six days this time, instead of the previous record of ten days. So until I can order these 550 Paracord Steel Tip Boot Laces from Amazon, I’m back to my cheap ($1) laces from Wal-Mart that last a couple of months.
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Thought for the Day:
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