Wednesday, October 18, 2006
RV faux pas
When we finally left the Cruise America office in our over-sized vehicle we headed straight for the supermarket to load up on food and accessories for our new home. It really was like shopping for a new house only trying to find the cheapest of everything (which usually meant the tackiest!) The dollar store also came in handy. Did you know it is possible to buy a saucepan for 1 dollar? My proudest purchase from there however was something that combines practicality with comfort...RV slippers! Rhod has an equally hideous ill-fitting pair in bottle green rather than hot pink. Again, you can't complain at those prices!We knew we'd committed our first RV faux pas when we stepped out of the supermarket. It was dark and with a horrifying look at our watches we realised that we had been shopping for 5 hours!! Allow me to quote from the RV Assistance Guide: "Always try to arrive at your destination while there is still some daylight." Well, for a start we were about to arrive at our destination in the pitch black and secondly we didn't actually know where that destination was as we hadn't made a booking. No problem, we thought. We'll just turn up somewhere and book in. However, the first place we found had closed 4 hours ago! At this point the reality set in. We didn't have a place to stay for the night, we didn't have a map and we wouldn't be able to see what we were doing when we got there!!
For those who like a happy ending we did manage to find ourselves a campground for the night. Luckily we are in America, a country who invented the term 'customer service' so despite arriving after hours, in the dark and not knowing our sewerage pipe from our elbows we were well looked after by the lovely Brenda and Steve.
Lessons have been learned...
# posted by Rhodri @ 4:08 am 
