Thursday August 17th 2017

I live in a box that’s around 200 square feet. Why do I have more trouble finding things than I had in a much bigger house? This morning after breakfast I started a search for my RV road service membership card. I wanted to confirm that I had another year on the membership. It wasn’t in any of the places I thought it should be stored.

One of the valley walls surrounding Richfield Utah.

I emptied and repacked three cabinets and three draws that were the most logical place for me to store the card. The good news is I decided to get rid of more junk that I don’t need to carry around the country with me. The bad news is I didn’t find the membership card. It will turn up eventually, but it’s going to bug me until it does. I was able to confirm the expiration date by finding the statement for the renewal from last fall in my records.

This is not the first time I’ve misplaced small things in this small space. I made a similar search for a backup camera battery last year. It finally showed up in a container with similar things about six months later. Why I didn’t find it when I was looking for it is a mystery. I have around 12 cabinets and 3 draws not dedicated to food or cooking. They aren’t big spaces, but they manage to collect a lot of junk. Keeping it organized is a challenge that I’m apparently having difficulty with. The larger of the cabinets have several small plastic bins each filled with similar stuff.

Two of the many places explored in my search this morning.

I sent over 3 hours in my search for the proverbial “needle in a haystack”. It was too late to drive the seventy miles to Capitol Reef National Park and still have enough time to enjoy the place. I’ll try again tomorrow. I used the time to run a couple of errands and to get the laundry done.

The Laundry facility at this campground is cheap, but not ideal. A load of wash costs $1.75 and forty five minutes in the dryer costs $1.25. The machines are squeezed into a small room that doesn’t have any real space for folding. I needed to use the tops of the washing machines to fold and stack my clean clothes.