Monday April 29th 2024

I got a slow start to the day. It was after 3PM when I departed the RV park which turns out to at the heart of the school release time. I had to stop for several school buses and got caught in the traffic around two different schools.

The whole getting to and from school in this area is so different from what I’m used to. Granted that there are many many years since I was in school and I grew up in an urban environment, but I just don’t get it. Every school bus stop seems to have multiple cars waiting for the kids to get off the bus. Maybe it makes sense for the lower elementary school grades particularly in the fall, but today I even saw the behavior with a couple of kids that looked like high school age. Can’t these kids walk a few hundred yards to their homes?

The other phenomena regards picking up the kids from school. Today I encountered two very long line of cars at the schools I passed by. The lines were so long they blocked traffic on the road for several hundred yards in both directions. Once the cars made it into the school yard they had to snake their way up to the doors to load their precious cargo. Meanwhile those of us just trying to drive by the school had to dodge the waiting cars and the arriving and departing school buses. Once again, in my day, getting picked up was the exception not the norm. I can only recall a handful of waiting cars on any given day. I must really be turning into an old fuddy duddy.

Walking around the RV resort today I saw more indications of departures. It is really starting to look empty in some areas. Clearly, I can’t figure out how who is going to leave and when. Some of the ones I observe have departed were on my list of probable full time residents. They go from fully setup with fancy patio structures and plants all around to an empty site in no time. At the same time new RVs arrive at the sites around me. Clearly this part of the massive campground is getting used for new arrivals right now.