Subj : RE: Our trip to Punta Gorda
To   : Thumper
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Sun Nov 21 2021 16:54:42

On 11/21/2021 1:22 PM, Thumper wrote to Mike Dippel:

-> 
->  MD> As usual, the camping trip was fun, but not without it's problems.  It's
->  MD> always great to spend time with people that you have things in common
->  MD> with.  One night we had a great dinner at a restaurant on the water.
-> 
->  MD> The first day we had a breakfast buffet in the clubhouse, my wife and
->  MD> were re-elected to the Board as Secretaries, games at night.  Everything
->  MD> was great.
-> 
->  MD> But then the rains came.  It rained so hard in the campground that it
->  MD> was raining sideways.  Unfortunately, that exposed a leak on the
->  MD> passenger side of the unit to the point where water was coming into the
->  MD> upper cabinets.
-> 
->  MD> Thank goodness it stopped before I ran out of towels :)
-> 
->  MD> Anyway, I am still not discouraged.  We have the coach scheduled to be
->  MD> sealed in the next coming weeks so we can try it all over again.
-> 
-> One of our last outings was crazy to! We have a Rockwood Tent Trailer and were
-> up in the Sierras at the end of May. Temps dropped so low that our Propane
-> tank froze, then the generator quit. No heat and well below freezing. Then to
-> top it off it started snowing. I remember the wife, dog and I huddled up on
-> the couch with sleeping bags watching Daniel Boone on the TV. Ended up being a
-> good trip in the end but started out crazy! Memories! :)
-> 
-> Thumper

Years ago, we would do weekend tent camping in Michigan.  With our luck, it seemed 
that we always chose a low spot to set up camp, and when the rains came, we awoke 
very wet!  We didn't have a TV, a generator or a couch.  Just a tent.

More than once, we would break camp early, stick the soaked tent in the trunk and head 
home to let the tent dry out.

Oh, the memories!

Mike Dippel
 
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