Booked!
I spend some time this morning finishing up booking our trip to Alabama the end of next month.
So here’s what I’ve got:
Sun – Jul 31 – Poche’s
Mon – Aug 1 – Hollywood Casino
Tue – Aug 2 – Gulf State Park
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Mon – Aug 8 – Gulf State Park
Tue – Aug 9 – Athens
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Sat – Aug 13 – Athens
Sun – Aug 14 – Benchmark Meridian
Mon – Aug 15 – Poche’s
Tue – Aug 16 – Back at Lake Conroe
So I’ve now got all our reservations booked. The Poche’s and Benchmark stays are both Passport America parks, so I’m saving $20 for each Poche’s stay, and $15 for the Benchmark one.
So in only three nights, saving a total of $55, that more than covers the $44 a year that a PPA membership costs. We’ve had a PPA membership since we first rented a Cruise America Class C to check out RV’ing in 2007, and it’s never taken more than a week or so of traveling to pay for our membership.
Around 1pm I went down to the office to see if we could stay over here a couple of extra days so we wouldn’t have to go back to Lake Conroe on July 3rd, in the middle of the 4th of July weekend. Not something I was looking forward too.
So, the answer to the question of whether or not they will let us stay here a couple of extra days was . . . NO!
Our Alliance membership doesn’t give us the option of two $29 week stays like some do. But I was hoping they could at least cut us some slack, but apparently not. But I did learn something that will help out even more.
I knew that we could rent a site here on an annual lease, but what I didn’t realize is that we could rent a site on a monthly basis, outside of our Thousand Trails membership. And it’s a really good deal, at least for us
We can get a 50amp site for $375 a month plus electric @ $012.5 per KW. Right now, because we’ve used up our 50 free days, and are paying the extra $3 per day for 50amp, a month stay, (two weeks at a time) costs us $240. And when you figure in 35 or so gallons of diesel going back and forth, we’re looking at about $335 a month, and we still have to move every two weeks.
And, as Jan says, “ . . . . the wear and tear on the rig, and us.”
So as it stands now, tomorrow I’ll book us a month here starting July 3rd, which means we’ll stay here until July 31st when we’ll leave for Alabama.
Hopefully it will all work out, and we’ll be here for six weeks straight.
Thought for the Day:
I posted the other day about using Photoshop, or in my case Paint Shop Pro, to ‘doctor’ photos. But this video takes it to a whole new level, seamlessly mixing Cary Grant in North By Northwest with elements of Star Wars.
It’s called Alfred Hitchcock’s Star Wars: Darth By Darthwest.
Check it out. It’s amazing!
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