Club house at Al Sihah Shrine Park, Macon, Georgia
This morning Georgia was not on my mind, the east coast was!
As projected, Sandy has touched land and sent its destructive fingers all over
the East coast. As I type this, Millions are without electricity. Water seems to have
taken over cities, houses burned down… My heart is with those that are dealing
with this storm of the century!
Yesterday morning (Oct 29th) when I got up, it was 10 C. (50
F.), in the trailer. We don’t mind the cold… when we are in the comfort of our
bed under our duvet but when we get up, a little warmth is really appreciated. It doesn’t take
long to warm up our 140 square foot home,
and while I was waiting for the heater to do its magic, I made my coffee.
At 08:15 we had our breakfast, got the trailer ready for the
road, filled up the fresh water tank, emptied the grey and black tanks, itched
the trailer, and drove away from Baileyton RV park. It was 5 C. (41 F.)
outside, brrrr. There was even some snow forecasted for the near future.
While we were driving south/West, we saw a lot of utility
vehicles (electricity and tree servicing) going North/East toward Sandy. They
will be really busy in the following days/weeks.
Every stop we made, there was a cold wind hitting us, and
even in Georgia where the outside temperature was up to 18 C. (64 F.) we needed a
warm sweater.
Christiane see double at athe pumps! |
After 610 KM (366 Mi.), we arrived at “Al Sihah Shrine Park”
around 16:00. It was a looooong drive!
Al Sihah Shrine Park, Macon, Georgia This is what happens when I don't take a shower! |
The park was empty. When we arrived, I went to the office but no
one was there. I started to go on the campground and saw 2 man working, so I
stopped and asked them if they were the manager and I was told no but just to
go ahead, setup, someone would be coming later to collect the camping fee.
While setting up, I noticed that the water was cut off, we had
plenty of water in our own tank, so we didn’t mind. When we were done, I went
back to the office, to pay them but there still was nobody around, I walked back and then one of the employee I
saw earlier, drove by and pointed out a person “that man is the person
you are looking for!”
When I talked to him, he told me not to worry about the money, that tomorrow
before leaving I just had to stop by the office and pay then. He also told
me that he turned the water back on for me.
I was anxious to turn the TV on and watch what was happening
with Sandy. There is no cable on our site. We have an antenna on the trailer
that is good enough to get local channels… so I thought. The only channel
we could get was a religious channel…
We have our Verizon gizmo, so at least we could get some news
from the Internet.
Latest update: This is Tuesday afternoon, we just made it to
Jasper Florida, I’ll talk about this tomorrow.
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