Daily Archives: January 20, 2017
Moving Day . . .
Things started moving fast this morning, and so did we.
I had just gotten to sleep after my 12 hour shift when I started getting texts from Todd, our SiteWatch supervisor, pretty much upending everything.
Rather than close the pad gate where I’ve worked for the last few days, the CM reopened it for days only until the frack starts. But the big change is that Todd wanted us to turn around from night shift to day shift. Which means that today’s turn-around day is maybe the only chance we’ll have to move over to Westhoff.
So after about 4 hours of sleep I was up a little after 11 so we could have one last meal at Barth’s. Then it was back to the rig by 12:30, and we were on our way by 2pm.
I had called ahead to the Westhoff RV Park and was told to just pick a site when we got there. So we did.
But it was all down hill from there. The park owner, Jan says he was creepy, was upset that we were in a ‘big, heavy’ motorcoach and were making deep ruts in his grass sites. Of course this was because the ground was soaked due to all the rain we’ve had in the last week.
Finally he asked us to move to another site where, not surprisingly, we also left deep ruts. At this point he continued to fuss and complain about how much trouble it was going to be to fill those ruts. At this point Jan got fed up and said, “Would you like us to leave?” He thought for a couple of seconds and said, “I think that would be best.” and then gave us our $240 check back. So we left, making more ruts getting out of the park.
So he ended up with the same ruts, but now he had no money. I’m not sure he thought this through.
But we later found a very nice RV near Cuero, for $250/ month with free Wi-Fi. It’s only about 20 minutes from the gate. But even better it’s only 3 minutes from Whataburger.
Thought for the Day:
“A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.”
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