Five days Away From "Home"

Monday Nov 5 - Friday, Nov 9.

We enjoyed hanging out with our friends and exploring the neighboring area.  We checked out Tomoka State Park as a possible campground -- the sites were beautiful but the maximum length is 34 feet.  Jay suggested lying, since our coach is 37 feet, and Jim wondered what we would do with the extra 3 feet!  We also checked out nearby Gambel Rodgers State Park on Flagler Beach, and while the sites were large enough it was very windy and didn't seem like a place we'd want to camp, especially since we're really not beach people.  Besides, the rangers said you pretty much have to book a year in advance!

On Wednesday we drove north towards St Augustine to pick up mail at our mail forwarding facility.  The facility is located in Green Cove Springs, a pleasant enough sounding place, but there's really nothing there.  We had a personal tour of the facility and met all the folks involved in the process of receiving, scanning, and handling our mail.  We had dinner at a wonderful little café just outside of St. Augustine,  and were surprised that there was excellent live entertainment that was enjoyable and added to the wonderful food.

On Friday, we headed back to Alliance, expecting that nothing had been done to the RV.  We were partly right -- they had done the yearly maintenance, but for most of the small repair items on the list, the answer was that they hadn't gotten to it.  We stressed that we wanted to leave over the weekend and the response to that was almost a surprise -- like maybe we really should want to stay in the beautiful campground for another week!    We just told them to forget these items -- Jim would take care of it -- the only reason we'd requested they do them was that since the RV was there, why not have the pros fix it?  But we weren't about to hang around another week so they could fix items that Jim can fix.  The one thing they said they had fixed was the leaky air conditioner, and the next morning when we turned it on, water started dripping right away.  They did send someone out and it seems that's fixed now.  We were also told that the steering issue, the main reason we took it to them, was that it needed an alignment and they don't do that.   I don't get why they didn't tell us this when we first came in.  Well, at least we got out of there by Saturday afternoon.