Sounds simple doesn’t it? It’s really good we cannot foresee the future or some days we might not get out of bed! We had a series of unfortunate events today but we are fine and nothing is life changing. We went and picked up our trailer from storage to do the last of the packing and head out, hopefully by 11am. When we got there to hook up the battery was dead again. John just gave it a partial charge yesterday, but before that it had totally drained (not a good thing for a trailer battery).
We went directly to Interstate Battery in Clovis and they checked it. They said it tested well but needed a full charge, which would take several hours even on their quick charge. We decided to go home and put the rest of our things in the trailer and then go back, buy a NEW battery, leave the other to be charged, and be on our way. That is exactly what we did.
However, when we checked the fridge after the battery installation it would not turn on. John tried a few things but then we headed to Paul Evert’s RV to see what they could tell us. After checking multiple things they think it is this “panel” behind the fridge. No, they don’t have a replacement. The soonest they could do that would be tomorrow afternoon. We thought about our options and decided we would use the fridge as an “ice box” and be on our way. By now it is 2:15p and we will need to make good time to be over to Morro Strand before dark to set up. We stopped for ice to put in the fridge and we were on our way.
We did make it just fine, an uneventful trip, which we are thankful for. Now after setting up we discovered the 12 volt outlets are not functioning… nor is the water heater OR the heater (sigh). These things we can live without, though it is not as comfortable as we are used to. We resigned ourselves to this with a note to call Paul Evert’s RV tomorrow and verify that this mystery “panel” is really the source of these additional problems. If not, then we really don’t know what the issues are!
For now we are set up and we walked up to pay for our stay. Some months back I called to verify that they were NOT taking reservations November 1st and it was first come, first serve. I can’t remember who I contacted but it was either the park itself or Reserve America, the source for making reservations in the CA State Park system. I was assured that was the case and this was one reason we came on Wednesday to be sure we could secure sites for ourselves, Deb & Sam, along with others who are coming. So now we want to pay through our stay and we cannot do that. The camp host says we can have the site for tonight but we will need to check with the Ranger staff that comes in after 9am tomorrow morning to see if we can have the same site for tomorrow, and then check again each day after that. I tried to explain about my phone call some time ago but the camp host knew nothing about that. He didn’t even have an envelope for me to pay for tonight until he fished around and found one. Clearly he has not been trained very well. He said that he didn’t think Reserve America has anything to do with the reservations here and that Reserve America doesn’t know what it is doing. That has not been my experience but at this point I took the envelope and decided I would turn on my hotspot and check for myself. Sure enough, on the Morro Strand site it says as of October 15, 2015, reservations are accepted year round for this campground. How nice it would have been to know this before now! Anyway, checking online it appears that the site we have is not booked for the days we planned to stay. I booked Friday-Monday and tomorrow we will pay for tonight and tomorrow night. I let Deb know they needed to make a reservation and to let me know what site they want and I can secure it for tomorrow. So far I haven’t heard back from them and the sites are still available online. Complicated…
We are here safe and sound and thankful for that. It is quite comfortable in the trailer and I doubt we would even use the heater, even if it did work. One must look at the bright side in these situations! No photos for today – who had time for that?!? Tomorrow in the daylight I will take a photo or two of our camp and the view. Morro Rock is quite prominent just south of us.
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