Since Sunday, we've had a couple of days of occasional heavy rain and high winds, and late Tuesday night was the big finale. Luckily, there was no lightning or hail to be concerned about, and being on high ground we didn't have any concerns about flooding, but we did experience more heavy rain and wind gusts approaching 50 MPH (estimated). Little House shook a few times from the wind's power. One of the sections on our 30 ft. ham radio antenna telescoped down (no damage) and everything else appeared okay in the morning light. Tuesday, the campground and surrounding area lost power for about 7 hours, but for situations when we don't have commercial power available Little House has a 2KW inverter that provides 110V AC power from 4 big batteries. And if the batteries are depleted, an on-board generator will provide 7.5 KW of power to run our systems and recharge the batteries, so we hardly knew there was an outage - life went on as usual for us.
Since last week, Hank has been suffering from a badly bruised knee and Tuesday night Selene jammed her foot in the middle of the night, so yesterday's departure routine was slow-moving to say the least. We left Cool Breeze RV Park at 12:45 P.M. Surrounded by beautiful fall scenery, we headed down the mountain on Hwy. 89 to start our 50 mile trip to Bill Plemmons RV World in Rural Hall, NC just north of Winston-Salem. This weekend is the dealer's annual camp-in with free camping, free food, prizes, and entertainment. We enjoyed this event last year and since we were already close by, it seemed like a good idea to take advantage of this gathering once again.
We're parked on gravel in one corner of the sales lot with a dozen or so other early-birds. Nothing fancy here - RV's are right next to each other and the only hookup is 30 AMP electric. It's very easy to get to know your neighbors whether you want to or not! We were advised to arrive with full fresh water tanks and empty black and grey tanks. There will be a dump station available for use as we leave. TV reception gives us a few stations, and with strong cell signals, the JetPack is working well. The event officially gets under way this evening (Thursday).
We'll be in staying at this location until Sunday.
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