Stressed

Whenever we pack up and set out to move to someplace new, there's some stress involved, but today took stress to a new level. We knew it was going to be tricky to get our Majestic down the hill and around the sharp bend required to get out of our current space.

It turned out to be even more difficult than we thought. Ken was driving, and I was spotting him from outside. It took us over half an hour to get a few hundred feet while missing tree branches, avoiding running our rear skirt into the ground, and keeping from falling over the edge or hitting rebar jutting out of the ground along the edge of the roadway.

The drive north on Hwy 99 was okay, although congested. We stopped in Lodi at a Costco and then went on to a Safeway a few miles west. Whoever maintains the roads in Lodi would do well to get lots of tree trimming done. Trees threatened our rig from the side of the road, from the median, and overhead. When we got to our campground, we found that the site we'd been assigned was currently occupied by a truck and some earth moving equipment. Also, the site was clearly a back-in, though the person at the desk had said we should just pull straight in, and the sewer outlet was on the curbside at the rear of the site. We would never have enough sewer hose to reach it.

It's difficult to see, but the truck on the left is flanked by a bulldozer, and both are in our assigned spot.
 
So, back to the office, where we were assigned another site. This one is a pull-through with just water and electric. When we had threaded our way to the site, we found a large party in full swing, with some golf carts parked along the side of our site. Also a pickup was parked jutting out into the approach road. Once those vehicles were moved, we finally were able to park and set up, with our partying neighbors cheering us on. By the time we were level and had the slides out, it was 7:00 p.m., way later than we like to arrive, and we were totally frazzled. It was still in the upper 90s, adding to the difficulty.

We decided to walk over to the part restaurant only to find that it had closed at 7:00 p.m. So back to the rig for a quick supper. We had an Indian red kidney bean curry I had picked up to try, served over some leftover linguini, and a spinach salad, followed by some strawberry tofu pie with fresh strawberries. After the dishes were done, we could finally sit down and call it a day.