Tuesday February 20th 2024

It was 47 degrees inside this morning when I rolled out of bed for the first time. The TV reported the outside overnight lows were in the upper thirties. Once the sun rose in above the horizon it brought the temperature into the mid sixties. Tonight the low is forecast to drop to similar levels.

I had two things planned for today. They were both put off because of the weekend rain. One was grocery shopping and the other was laundry. My knowledge of this campground and the area from previous visits lead me to believe the tasks would be easier here. Right now, maybe not. They are in the process of replacing all of the washers and dryers in both of the laundry facilities at the campgound. This morning a large box truck arrived with new machines. The old ones were brought out and new ones were installed. As of the end of the day, all of the machines have been swapped. I don’t think they are hooked up yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to do a load or two before I leave on Friday. My next stop doesn’t have a laundry facility.

The grocery shopping was successful, but disappointing. I managed to get everything I really needed. In several cases I needed to alter my choice to accommodate low inventory. Usually that meant buying a name brand rather than the store brand. In a couple of other cases I took the last of a product on the shelf. The issue is the size of the store. While it is a full service grocery store, it only has room for less stock on the shelves and fewer selections of size. For example, at bigger Walmart, cold cereal is spread out over one and a half sides of an aisle. At this Walmart the cereal only spanned about three quarters of a side of the aisle. On a positive side it wasn’t very busy in the afternoon.

From the difficulty I had getting a reservation at this campground for four nights this week, I expected it to be very full. I wasn’t surprised that there were a few empty sites last night, but there are even more openings tonight. My guess is that one of the next two nights the park will be full. There are snowbirds occupying most of the sites. It is much louder, party oriented group than I’m used to seeing here.