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Wherever Home is Parked?

Wherever Home is Parked?

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Everyone is finally Moved!

Pascagoula, MS

Oh what a stressful few days it’s been .. Friday nothing went right for us and when we got to Steve’s to move him they had the only road out tore up and we barely fit through with our truck.  NO way could we pull a 32’ travel trailer through there.  Since we wasn’t able to move Steve we all decided to head to Hard Rock to eat lunch.  They have a discount buffet on Wednesday and Friday’s.  After we ate lunch Steve still needed us to help him get several things done.  So off we went to finish up his to do list.  What a day it was and we didn’t get home until after 8 pm and we still had to pack and get ready for our move in the morning.  We finally got finished and after showering it was almost 11 PM before getting to bed.  At least all we have to do in the morning is unhook the electric, put the slides in and put hubby’s coffee pot up.

We were up early and on the road to moving by 8 AM!  Our morning did not start off good.  One of our slides did not want to go in and no it wasn’t the one that i crushed the printer in.  We needed to stop and dump our tanks before heading on the road.  For the just in case.  It was a very tight squeeze getting our big rig in to dump.  With time and good maneuvering on hubby’s part we finally got that dirty deed done.
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One good thing about the morning was it was really nice by 8 AM it was already 58 degrees and reaching the low 70’s :)We didn’t go far only about 35 miles.  We will be staying in Pascagoula, MS for around 2 weeks or so. 
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Once again it was tight maneuvering on hubby’s part as city streets are not built for big rigs.  Hubby did good and we just took our time.  Once we got to where we were going they didn’t have the van moved for us to park and no one was around to move it.  Luckily for us it was unlocked so we took it out of gear, while hubby pushed on it i ran the break.  We got it out of the way enough we could park where we could reach the hookups. 
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We got backed in where they told us to park and got setup.  YES, we are parked in a parking lot.  Not the pretty site we just left.  But hey i have full hookups here and 2 weeks worth of laundry that needs to be done!  I’m not going to complain about our view.  I do not have any other rigs on top of me and i have a full view on our door side, our back side is not pretty but as i said I'm not complaining.  Instead I’m thankful i do not have to go to a laundry mat and most of all it’s free rent! 

Uh Oh .. our water hose has a leak, our sewer is running up hill.  Ughh we decided we wouldn’t worry about either until later. So we headed to Biloxi to Steve’s place and i tried calling several times to let him know we were on our way.  Of course he wasn’t answering.  We barely missed the Christmas parade on our way over.  (of course i wouldn’t of minded seeing it but we just didn’t have time)
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Steve finally returned my call when were about 5 mins from his place.  His new phone and him are not working out too well as it only has 1 ring tone and he can not hear it very good.  We arrived and backed in to hook up to Steve’s trailer and it took some doing as his battery was dead and his electric jack wouldn’t work.  We ended up hooking back up to the electric to get hooked up.  Finally we were on our way and then we got stopped for the draw bridge.  In all the times we have crossed this bridge we’ve never seen it raised up.  Of all days.  We had to wait almost 30 mins!  Finally we arrived at the Armed Forces Retirement home.  Instead of letting us go through an open clear gate they had us go through the front gate.  Guess you can imagine what happened when you don’t have enough clearance.  Hubby told the guard he didn’t think we had enough clearance we should go through the side gate and he insisted we did and he’d watch us.  Yes, we got stuck!  Hubby had to unhook the trailer from our truck to lower it enough.  Then he had to work on his receiver and set the ball lower so that he could get the camper backed out.  Finally about an hour later he had the camper unstuck and we were on our way again.  Then the area that they gave us to park was so little and there were trailer’s everywhere and with our big beast barely enough room to get swung around and backed in.  Another over an hour and lots of barely moving forward, going backwards and Steve and I directing hubby we had the trailer parked .. So relieved that was over.  We were so frustrated and just wanted to get out i didn’t even take any pictures.  There was no damage to the building but did put a scrap on Steve’s camper on the side where it caught a light pole.  Of course we were all thankful that is all it was as it could have been so much worse.  I bet from now on they will let the campers use the side gate .. snicker
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It was after 3 PM but Steve wanted to give us a tour of his new home.  We took the tour and it’s really nice and I'm so thankful he finally got in as i won’t have to worry about him near as much when were gone.  They will take care of all of his needs.  We were all starving so we headed a few blocks away to Kentucky Fried Chicken.  It was really good and after eating we were all exhausted and we decided to say good bye for now.
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We still had about a 35 min drive home and we needed to stop by Lowe’s to get a new hose so we could have water and an adapter for sewer hose.  I guess one out of two isn't bad.  They didn’t have one of the white hoses we like to use for our water but they did have the end hubby needed to fix our hose.  They didn’t have the sewer adapter either.  We got home and it was starting to get dusk as you can see by the pictures. 
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We finally got home and hubby fixed it so we could have water.  For now we will have to leave the tanks all closed and when we dump we will have to hand move the hose to get the water to go out until we can get what we need.

Hubby tried working on the satellite but couldn’t get it and he was so frustrated he said forget it and i called and set up an appointment for someone else to come work on it.  He decided to get him a good long hot shower and just relax.  You won’t believe what happened to him next.  He went to get on his computer and now it’s locking up.  I tried working on it but i fear he had a virus on it and when he shut his computer down this morning when we left it got it good.  I will try restoring it tomorrow. 
So for now he is lying on the couch watching Georgia and LSU play football.  At least we get several channels on regular TV for him.

It’s been 2 very long days of nothing going right and we pray tomorrow will be a better day for us.  I pray the satellite guy doesn’t come while were at church in the morning.  I’m going to put my phone on vibrate in case he tries to call.

I have a load of laundry going and the rest of the evening is going to be spent just relaxing as we are both mentally and physically exhausted.  Were glad we are parked and pray that the next few weeks go good for us.  Tomorrow is suppose to be another day with mid 70’s temps.  I plan to spend our afternoon outside enjoying the sunshine.