Pining for the Fjords

Okay, blog buddies - a few things before I launch into the story about this whole ordeal: 1. I'm fine.  I mean, I'm not perfectly healthy yet/again, but right now, I'm at like 80-85% of my normal, and that's not too bad, overall.  Lots of folks have it way worse, particularly right now. 2.  I apologize if you're a close friend/family member of mine, and this is the first you're finding out about this.  It's kinda impersonal - I get that - and I'm sorry.  I have to be honest and say I've been reluctant to mention this to too many folks until things resolved a bit further.   Everyone  is worried about so many things right now, and I didn't want to throw yet another pine cone of stress on the proverbial dumpster fire that is the year of our lord 2020 (for those of you who didn't grow up as pyromaniac Girl Scouts, pine cones tend to explode when you throw them in a camp fire - FYI). Okay, with those important disclaimers out of the way, here'...

As I mentioned on the blog last week , we recently acquired a travel trailer and named her Arlene.  A few weeks after sealing the deal (and ordering around $8 million of RV-related products from Amazon and Wal-Mart), we were ready to take her on her maiden voyage - up north to Flagstaff! I'm wearing LONG PANTS! HOORAY! After researching potential campsites on Campendium.com  (a good site for all sorts of camping), we picked Greer's Pine Shadows as our RV park of choice; it was in a quiet area of town, had lots of trees for shade and rain cover, and it offered a back gate that opened onto the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) area nearby, for easy hiking access (Greer's was also cheaper and more available than the KOA and didn't care that we weren't 55+, which was the issue at the third park in the area). We both took Wednesday-Friday off, and on Wednesday, we headed out to Always RV so they could finish the hitch installation, including the sway bars and whatnot.  Dav...