Captain’s Blog
When we woke this morning we decided it might be a nice idea to stay one more day. Ronnie went to the office but was told that our site was booked for the night but another site was available. Since we had to close it up and unhook we decided that we would leave instead.
Usually hooking up the car is not an issue but today, for some reason, I did not have the key in the correct position and soon we were dragging the car. OOPHS!!!! That is never good so we pulled over and changed the position of the key. Because the car was locked I followed Ronnie out to unlock the car with our second set of keys. Once everything was in order we were on our way again.
We went down the street a short distance and I looked on the couch and NO JEWEL!!!!
She wasn’t on the bed or under the table either!!! I yelled WHERE’S JEWEL??????? Once again we pulled over and both ran back to our first stop. The traffic was brutal and cars were zipping by. Ronnie spotted Jewel and called for her. She came running but decided to stop in the middle of the road. Ronnie ran to get her and thank God neither got run over. Talk about feeling sick to your stomach. I thought we had lost her and it would have been my fault. Jewel loves to jump out of the MH when we’re not looking and I was the last to leave the MH and didn’t close the door behind me. That would have been the end of our trip and I never would have forgiven myself because she is our “BABY.”
The ride to the D.C. area was very nice. The majority of the drive was on back roads with not too much traffic. We had to stop on two occasions and as soon as we stopped Jewel headed to the bed and refused to come upfront so I had to carry her. The second stop resulted in her staying on the bed hiding behind the pillows. We decided to let her ride back there but I had to check o her. The MH typically rides very rough in the back despite the airbags. She was shaking and was happy to see me so I brought her up front with us – again. She is a little devil.
Before crossing into Delaware we stopped at the Pilot truck stop in NJ for gas. Gas is much cheaper here at $2.39 per gal. - $2.37 with our pilot discount. The MH was on empty so this was the last gas station before Delaware.
Because we are a MH we cannot go through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. My job as navigator is to make sure Ronnie does not miss his exit . Well, wouldn’t you know they have done tons of road construction and the exit has been moved. You guessed it we missed it and despite my great navigational skills we were locked into road we could not exit from and ended up going through the tunnel. YIKES!!! I can only imagine what we looked like when we said OMG what the H---. Hopefully we have not been photographed and targeted for a huge fine. I have received 8 demerits from Ronnie and I gave myself 8 demerits as well.
Finally we arrived at Greenbelt and secured a very nice no-hook-up site for $8.00 per night far less the $49.00 we have been paying. Of course it is hotter then Hades and no AC. What are we thinkinG!!
Not sure what we will be doing tomorrow. Either hanging around the CG or going into
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