Near Cleveland, Oct. 2, 2010
In writing this, I'm reminded of Natalie Goldberg's advice to write "shitty first drafts" to get the dross out of your system so the gold can shine through. She wrote that years before this age of tweets and posts, however. Now people seem to consider dross good, as long as it connects them to someone. So in the spirit of "dross is good," I'll proceed with this SFD.
In preparing for this trip, Gary downloaded some audiobooks and a Robin Williams movie, "RV." We finally got around to watching "RV" a couple of nights ago, and it's a stitch, especially if you're an RVer. I won't go into all the slapstick jokes and plot angles, but one thing it shares with real life is never knowing what will happen next...with the rig or with human beings involved with it.
Today's adventure: brown water gushing from our tap this morning. It rained last night, revealing there's a leak somewhere in the well we're hosed into. Gary had to flush out our whole water system (especially the hot-water tank), then find enough hose to connect us to the main house 100 yards away. Time elapsed: 1 hour. We hope boiling killed any bugs that might have been in our coffee water. Other surprises we've had include a leaking steering fluid pump (have you ever tried steering a 5-ton rig manually? Gary has!), and s-l-o-w Internet connections that drag out my editing time, even when we have wi-fi (getting "four bars" really MEANS something to me, now).
Lesson: Be adaptable and don't expect to control your life in an RV.
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