Home Sweet Home

We left Cincinnati Tuesday morning and drove to Marion, IL.  We chose a new way home due to I-75 construction and the I-40 bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis was closed when we initially made our plans and reservations.  The bridge opened a few days before we left but we let the reservations stand.  It was a nice, new to us, park and we would stay there again.

We gained an hour so left about 8 on Wednesday morning with a destination of Little Rock to another new to us park.  We have driven the Little Rock to Memphis route a zillion times but always used the bypass to the east so never went past it to the north to stay at the county Riverfront RV park.  Due to covid they telephoned very good driving instructions and our reservation pact was outside of the office.  It is all concrete pads with a ribbon of gravel on either side.  The only grass is along the river but it had the biggest sites we have ever parked in.  There was room for 4 cars plus our motorhome in a pull thru spot.  Easiest parking ever!

There were 6 bridges visible from the bench at the river.  One was a foot bridge you could take from the park to the Clinton Library.  However, it would be a good, long walk.  We passed!  Because we didn’t want to unhook the car we ate in the motorhome each night.  

Next stop was Carthage TX RV park.  Our windshield got hit with something that flew off a truck that had no tarp over its contents.  We arrived early enough to try to get someone to come fix the window but we had no luck.  Safelite had no appts. clear out to October 10!  I just stopped looking then.  We wanted to get the ding fixed before it spread.  We had a $2700 claim last year from a shattered window unit and I sure didn’t want another one.  I went on Yelp and created a request for when we arrived home at the park near our home.  I got an immediate response and an appt. was set for 5 pm.  Sure enough he and his son arrived on time, explained that it was a pretty big “ding” so their primary intent was to keep it from spreading.  They did a good job and we were happy.  

We had been loading our pantry items, clothes, meds, etc. to take home before they arrived.  We had time to put some away, minimizing the “mess” at home.  What we didn’t expect was all 5 smoke alarms to be chirping! There were no 9 volt batteries in my basket so Ted went out bought a  4 pack.  Problem was, we needed 5.  So back out he went for another pack.  The noise was deafening at times.  They are all located in the small hallway and bedrooms.  We could hardly determine which was chirping when.  I was sure glad when they all quieted down.  

We slept at home and headed back to the campground in the morning.  Ted was going to finish washing the front of the motorhome while I emptied the refrigerator and cleaned it.  Pretty soon we were putting it away until the next time.  

I continued working at home, Ted took both cars to the car wash and we finally made it to Mass at 5 followed by dinner at the Mexican restaurant without Terry and Carol.  While we were gone, they sold their house and headed to Alabama to look for a new home.  So far, nothing!