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Borrego Springs, CA

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

It’s good to be home…I think

After my expensive, quiet motel last night, I decided to pass on having a room service breakfast since it would have cost me about $15.  Instead, I had a sausage McMuffin for $1.06.  Winking smile  I was leaving Lexington by eight in the morning and thought I’d take a little detour on my way back to check out the COE campground where my sister and I have made reservations for the second week in July.  It’s on Buckhorn Lake in Kentucky.

“Jack-in-the-Box” agreed with the directions to get there in my COE book, so that was a good thing.  I imagined myself to be my brother-in-law, Stan, driving his motorhome since this is the route that he would take from the north.  Even in my car it was a slow up and down, very curvy, skinny 50+ miles through the mountains of eastern Kentucky.  Occasionally I went as fast as 40 mph, but most of the drive was in the 20-30 mph range.  When I finally found the campground, it was a little less than I expected for a COE park.  The sites were quite close together, and not very long.  I thought they’d border Buckhorn Lake, but they didn’t.  I’m not sure where the lake was.  I never saw it.  The waterfront sites that we reserved are along a small river. 

It’s also really located in the middle of nowhere, and it would take hours to get to any place to visit or tour.  I’m sure it’s quite nice if you are a fisherman, but none of us are.  I’m having second thoughts about meeting there and am looking into other possibilities.  The route I would take there from here only involves about 20 miles of tortuous driving, but I think I’ll go with my gut feeling unless Pam and Stan just want to stay in camp and relax for a week.  I’m glad I took the time and the extra 120 miles to check this place out.

When I got back to the Escapees Raccoon Valley park, I was relieved.  There’s nothing like coming home.  It’s nice to visit family and stay with them, and I occasionally enjoy a stay in a motel, but nothing beats my own bed and routine.

While I was at Robyn’s, I had my mail delivered but didn’t really go through it until today.  June is when my insurance on the rig and toad are due so I planned to take care of that this afternoon.  When I opened the bill, I almost passed out.  It was more than 80% higher than I’ve paid for the last six years!  I gave my agent a call in Sioux Falls, and he’s going to get back to me tomorrow after he investigates it.  Yes, I had a claim last summer when I got the rig up close and personal with a tree, but that hardly seems reason to me to almost double my cost.  Isn’t that why you have insurance?

I managed to get most everything unpacked from the car this afternoon.  You know, when I go to the Chicago area I have to pick up some special items that I can’t find in other areas of the country.  I bought a small Styrofoam cooler so I could transport some great cold cuts, good rye bread, and Italian beef back for my freezer.  There were a few other items also.  I sure did come back with more than I left with.  Smile

As I went to store my suitcase under the bed, I noticed some evidence of some unwanted residents.  Upon further investigation, it seems a family of mice had found some green sponge like stuff and made a not so little nest in the past.  I’m guessing it happened while I was at Anahuac NWR last winter.  (I don’t use the stuff under the bed very often)  The green foam came from an ironing board thingy that I had for when I used to iron my clothes.  I gave that up some time ago, but kept the pad just in case.  So, out came the vacuum and I sucked up the debris.  Yuck!  I had to get out my rubber gloves to dispose of a couple of petrified little bodies.  Apparently I had trapped the mother.  It was a disgusting task, but now I guess I’ll have to give up ironing for sure!  All’s well that ends well…

Thanks for stopping by… talk to you later,  Judy

26 comments:

  1. Not a welcome home that makes you feel all warm and cozy. But I do agree, coming home feels so good. Too bad the COE campground didn't look that good. Usually they are so beautiful.

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  2. nice welcome home..dead baby mice under your bed!..eww!!

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  3. Now if you had stayed in that first hotel, you might have had to deal with mice during your night in the hotel.

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  4. The reunion with Emma must have been great. Nothing like some lovin from our pets.

    I've been following your blog for awhile and really enjoy your adventures.

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  5. OMG, what a hoot....I wouldnt even know what cooked heroin or semen stains LOOK LIKE! Girl, glad you checked the reviews

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  6. I'm with you...that's enough to make me give up ironing all together!
    Good luck with the insurance bill.

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  7. And you thought that funny smell was from your socks. Nothing like a special welcome home. ;c)

    Insurance, legal robbery!

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  8. Hmmmm.... not the best welcome home I would imagine. Sleep well tonight and don't let the ..... o.k. I wont' say it!

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  9. 80% sure does sound out of line! One claim or not, it shouldn't go up that high. I am interested in hearing what the explanation is you get.

    OH YUCK! I sure not envy you for having to clean up that mess!

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  10. I'm thinking dead mice are better than live ones!

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  11. At least it wasn't a new batch of the filthy things.
    You made my mouth water over your purchases from Chicago. I can smell that bread and Italian beef all the way over here.

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  12. Yuk..don't you just hate it when something nasty invades your very private space. It really makes me see RED.

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  13. Glad you survived the big party and are home safely. I think I agree with Robbie--better dead mice than live ones.

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  14. Yep; will take dead mice over live ones any day, any time.

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  15. Judy, would you be willing to share WHO you have insurance with, that jacked up your rates so high?

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  17. Our insurance went way up too and we did not have a claim. It is just high!

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    1. I had a 10% increase this year with no claims. When I asked my agent if I was helping to cover the claims made by other people she said that was probably true. If there are increased claims then everyone is charged more with those making the claim being charged the most.

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  18. We also found mouse evidence under our bed a while ago. They had made a nest in an extra blanket stored under there. We didn't have any dead bodies, just the shredded blanket and mouse doo-doo. The whole thing went in the garbage. It makes me wonder how they get under there.

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  19. Somehow the dead mice, yucky ironing board cover, Italian Beef, rye bread just don't go together.....Kinda ruined my appetite. So glad that you checked on that COE campground. We can check that one off our list!

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  20. The place we're currently workamping, Indian Hills Resort, sounds like that COE campground -- except we can definitely see the lake. It's a great place to fish. Some of the guys are complaining that the fish are too big! But it's 75 miles to the closest Walmart and everything to go and see is at least an hours drive. Chalk it up to our learning curve. We've learned we don't like being this far from civilization!

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  21. Take comfort in the fact that you never have to iron again. That COE campground sounds like my kind of place: in the mountains and nothing to do except sit outside and look up at the trees.

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  22. Yuk, the invasion of the mice. Good thing you checked out the COE, probably too remote for me since we don't fish anymore.

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  23. All in all not a fun sounding return trip:( I hate it when rodents find there way into the coach. With that schedule, I take it we will not see you at GNR:(

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  24. I gave up ironing about 3 years ago...This might account for my "rumpled" attire on occasion....but I really don't care...We have never had mice in the rig...yet....But in Alabama we had an ant infestation from Hell...They were even inside the refrig....EGAD!!

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  25. I am pretty sure there are styrafoam coolers in other parts of the country MURDERER!

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