Oh, you think things are going so well…and then KABOOSH! It suddenly felt like Hellfire and Brimstone had broken out!
It started last night at Cracker Barrel in Vicksburg. After what seemed to be a fairly easy drive from Wilderness RV Park to Vicksburg, staying on I-10, then I-12, then I-55 for nearly all of it (instead of taking the shorter yet harder drive through Hattiesburg and Jackson Mississippi), we had a good dinner at Cracker Barrel, ask to spend the night and got the normal, “you bet” from the manager. Around 9:30, some fool starts playing his car radio booooming extremely loud, which lasted about 30 minutes. I told Marcia it was probably some guy waiting for his girlfriend to get off from work...and it probably was. About 10:30 we both called it a night…and soon after that is when all hell broke loose. The manager did not warn us that it was Cleaning Night…that they had scheduled deep cleaning with a high pressure steam cleaners…that run on the loudest generator you can imagine. On and off throughout the night until 5:00 when the dumpsters were dumped by the garbage truck. Then seeing a new victim to clean, the steam cleaner guy starts up again and washes down the huge garbage bins. By 5:45 the noise subsides...but by 6:30 I told Marcia I have had enough as now we can hear cars pulling in, and highway traffic zooming along the Interstate. Why did we wait that long? Because the steam cleaner blocked our exit with his van, so we were stuck for the duration...although I could have unhooked the car and backed out…staying seemed to be the lesser of two evils, and decided to stay put.
Our drive through Louisiana and up US 65 was just fine. Just 2 to 3 miles short of Arkansas, Skruffy lets out a bark. She has trouble getting down off the chair, but with a little help I got her off while I still drove, and she came over to Marcia, and I got her up on Marcia’s lap. She acted very peculiar…like she knew she was near her old home. She barked and howled and we all had a good time. In Lake Village I stopped to walk her and Bubba, and back to her chair she went. Then, seeing we went through Hellfire last night, the heavens opened and we were POOOOOOURED upon. When I say poured, I mean poured…all the way to Little Rock. Sometimes it was so heavy I could barely go 45, and boy it was hard to keep it on the road sometimes.
We had reservations starting tomorrow through Thursday at Maumelle Park…but we arrived a day early, and we took a walk-in spot for one night because someone is in the spot we will get starting tomorrow. Pictures of one of our favorite parks will follow later…for now, I think we are both going to take a nap, assuming that woodpecker in the tree above us doesn’t get too loud. Time to LOAD the GUN….
NOTE: It sure is nice to be back on the road....
Luckily not all trips are like that, hope the next leg is better:)
ReplyDeleteNext leg is staying here for 7 nights...then over to Mt. Magazine for another week (tallest place in Arkansas, about 90 miles to our west. Then we have four days to get up to Kansas City area for another week in a park up there...that trip is for my youngest son's graduation from Chiropractic School.
DeleteWell, the parking lot and dumpster will be nice and clean for the next time you stop there! :-D Tony hates staying at Cracker Barrels because the garbageman always comes at 5:00 in the morning and then he's up for the day but I just go right back to sleep. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe are like you, when they dump the dumpster we either don't hear it, don't remember it, or fall back to sleep.
DeleteHow well I know of which you speak. I try to avoid Cracker Barrel and Walmart for parking. It WILL get better!! Hugs to the puppies.
ReplyDeleteWe have never had a problem with Cracker Barrel before...many times it is very quiet. Walmarts, well they are always louder, so we try to stay away from them.
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