One thing about being a fulltimer is that you have to be flexible. It is a rare day that you make a hard schedule (regarding where you will stay, when you will get there or when you will leave) because things change. And so it is with our departure from Chattahoochee Bend State Park. Our last day of being volunteer camp hosts is still May 31st but our departure day of June 1st is now history. At nearly the last minute our daughter and son-in-law asked us to keep the grand baby so they could have one last weekend away before we leave. But the weekend in question was a week after we were supposed to be gone. There was no chance that we would say no to having the baby all to ourselves one more time, even if it means changing our plans by a week.
So now we will pull off our camp host site on the first day of June and move a grand total of about 500 yards to campsite #111, a pretty back-in site with great views of the woods and a clear shot at the satellites for our TV. The only drawback is that we lost our sewer connection, camp host sites are the only sites with those.
It's been weird though. We are still in the same park that we have been camp hosts for the past 14 months. The mind has developed a habit/routine and seems to want to keep it up. We both have the urge to do rounds and at mid-morning to head to the bath houses to clean them. And there is the temptation to greet arriving campers after 5pm. We have to think about NOT turning on the porch light and leaving it on until 10:00pm. And we have both felt odd not having to be in uniform until 10:00pm. We can actually go get in bed early and watch TV. Wow!
We didn't do much on the days leading up to the weekend. Made a couple of trips to town to do some grocery shopping (and kill some time). There was some work though, the pre-departure checklist needed to be gone through. Most of it was simple but all was important to do and after such a long time in one spot there was a ton of "stuff" that needed to be taken down from the campsite, cleaned and stowed. The biggest chore was getting the tires, all 12 of them, up to pressure. One of the trips to town took care of the high pressure truck tires. We had found a truck tire shop in Newnan that could inflate to 110psi. The trailer tires required about a dozen trips back and forth to the maintenance barn to fill a portable air tank and bring those tires to 80psi. It would have been nice to just drive the trailer up to the shop on the way out and fill the tires there but there is barely room to turn a pickup around, little alone a 60 foot long truck/trailer combination.
But it is all done, all we have to do now is pack our bags for the weekend for the baby/dog/house sitting extravaganza.
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