Sunday, September 1, 2013
Well, we didn't get moving fast enough this morning to get out to the trade days. I think the long week had finally caught up with us. Both of us slept later than normal, and even the kitties slept in.
Tony cooked a wonderful breakfast of French toast and sausage, using our griddle. This works much better than trying them one at a time in a pan on the stove.
After breakfast we began investigating to broken pipe issue, and while I showered Tony tracked the odor... It's still coming in somewhere. But we narrowed it down to definitely a venting of the grey bathroom tank issue, not related to the AC or fantastic fan.
While we were working on that problem, the power-outages started again, and they became more frequent. About 10:30 Tony decided to go to the office to see what could be done. What's happening is that there is enough of a power fluctuation that our Electricity Management System is shutting down the power to the coach, as a precaution. It then takes 2 minutes to reset and open the connection again. When it happens more then 3 times within the hour, it starts to become annoying and the AC has a harder time trying to keep the rig cool!
So he went up to the office and they immediately seemed concerned. The office manager came to our site and checked, as we as a few other sites, and said yes the power was running high. She said she'd have her husband check and she'd call the power company, because apparently we were not the first to express concerns.
After a while there was a knock
And she told us the power company was aware and was looking into it. About an hour or so later, she came back by to say that they were working on a transformer down the road that was having issues and hoped to have it resolved soon. After that, we felt much better, it's good to know we helped. And sure enough, they said the same! They gave us a nice mug and a gift certificate, for helping them with the power. :)
In the afternoon, we decided to head over to see a state park we'd considered staying at but didn't know much about: Purtis Creek State Park. It was about a 30 min drive south of Canton.
We renewed our State Park Pass, then drove around the park's day use area, then over the earth dam to the camping areas. The park has some extensive areas of fire damage. I think it was a controlled burn, but it sure doesn't look all too attractive. We drove around the RV section, which is all back-ins and 30amp water and electric only. We didn't see any big 5vers there. Some small and medium, but mostly travel trailers, pop-ups and tent campers. I think we'll have to pass on this park. I'm glad we came and looked first!
After exploring, we headed back to Canton and stopped in to WalMart for some drinks and to check out their RV section. They had more than the typical, probably because of the high concentration of RVers here every month for trade days.
In the hunting and fishing section, we saw Si Robertson of Duck Dynasty! Ok, not really, but the guy could've been a relative.
After Walmart, we picked up some Dairy Queen steak finger baskets and headed back home. It's just too darn hot!!
We ate and settled in to watch a movie. After the movie, we surfed our phones, then headed off to bed.
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