Day 43 Tuesday 10/31/2023
Since we didn’t have to get up early this morning the plan was to sleep in but old habits are hard to break.
We didn’t need to leave until after 11am since we only had an 1.5 hour drive to Tanglewood Campground in Clemmons NC where we will be for three nights.
With all the leaves falling I decided to get the ladder out and climb up and blow the leaves off the slides before we brought them in. Then I blew them off the site again so there wouldn’t be so many when the November host comes in.
When we drove away there was a steady stream of leaves blowing off the roof all over the cars that was following us.
We got to Tanglewood about 12:30 and set up in site 1. As usual it was not level so we had to put our ramps under the rear tires.
We spent the rest of the day catching up on some things like laundry, posting the Blog, etc., catching stink bugs (yuk) and resting.
Day 44 Wednesday 11/01/2023
A very cool morning but that didn’t stop us from finding a Latte and donuts at Krispy Kreme in Clemmons. We got a couple of fresh original glazed ones right off the line as they came around.
Later we went to the Clemmons Kitchen for one of their Lunch Specials. We ate here a few years ago and they serve good home cooking style food. The serving are so big we only ate half so we had enough for another meal to take with us. We don’t see how anyone can eat that much in one setting.
We have a device called a Hughes Power Watchdog, that we plug into the campsite electrical pedestal that our motorhome power cord is then plugged into that monitors the incoming electricity. If it sees any electricity issues like voltage above 132 volts or below 104 volts it will shut down the power going into the motorhome. Yesterday our power went off a few times. Today it started doing it again and got frequent midafternoon. I finally was able to use the app on my iPhone that displays the data from the Watch Dog to catch the reading when it went above 132 volts and took a photo of the iPhone display. So I went to the campground host to tell them about the issue. And of course all the maintenance workers had gone home and said they would not come check the problem until tomorrow.
I had already told the hosts that if Maintenace could not come today we were leaving and probably would not ever stay at this campground again because we had power problems the last time we stayed here. They had one site open so they told us we come move to it. I took the Watch Dog to that site and plugged it in and watched it for several minutes and the power looked good so we moved to site 44 and to our amazement it was actually level.
In all the years we have been camping we have never moved from one site to another during a stay. It was well worth it to not risk electrical damage to our equipment. We have a generator but we can’t run it from 10PM to 7AM due to quiet hours and with the temperature dropping to below freezing tonight we needed heat and our 6 batteries will not run the heat for 9 hours.
Day 45 Thursday 11/02/2023
A nice crisp 25 degrees this morning so a nice hot Latte and brownie at Ketchie Creek Bakery & Cafe was in order.
We didn’t have any power issues since moving to site 44 yesterday so that proves to me that it was campground power issues and not our equipment.
Day 46 Friday 11/03/2023
Another crisp 25 degree morning. We prepared for departure and pulled out at 9:40 AM, stopped for fuel 10 miles down I40 and then headed to the Greensboro Coliseum so I could attend the 2023 North Carolina Woodturners Symposium. The first one I have been to since COVID.
We had reservations to park in the coliseum parking lot. There is also a Christmas Craft Show going on in another part of the building and the people were really coming into the parking lot but the parking staff was holding one section closed for cars until we got there so we could get in and park beside our electrical hookup. That sure was nice of them. They also brought over a water line for us even though I told the manager we didn’t need it. I was not expecting to have a water source so I had filled our fresh water tank to 50% which is about 50 gallons. We are only here 2 nights.
John and Nancy, friends of our that live in Greensboro, came over at 5:30 and we went to Olive Garden for dinner. It was good to see them. We haven’t visited with them in awhile.
Day 47 Saturday 11/04/2023
The Symposium ran from 8:30AM to 5PM with a 1.5 hour break for lunch which was included with the cost of the Symposium. Each session or as they are call rotation last 1.5 hours so I attended 4 rotations today, each on a different topic of Woodturning. There are about a dozen from my club (Wilmington Area Woodturners Association or WAWA)here.
I am glad the lunch didn’t cost me any extra because it was not up to par with the lunches at the other symposiums I have attended here. The baked beans were only about half baked and the hot dog buns were cold and hard. The hot dog chili and the pasta salad was good and so was the coffee and sugar cookies.
There was a buffet dinner at 6PM that was also included with the meal but I decided to not attend.
Day 48 Sunday 11/05/2023
I found out the Christmas craft show will run from 10AM to 5 PM today. The symposium ends at Noon so I decided to not attend the two rotations today because we will probably be blocked in the parking lot until the craft customers thin out and we don’t want to wait until 5PM to drive home. I attended the most important rotations that I wanted to attend. So we departed at 7:30AM before the parking lot started filling up.
We stopped at Hardee’s in Kenansville for a late breakfast. We were not aware that they have a good country ham and egg biscuit for breakfast. We got home just before Noon.
We were glad to be safely home after a 1400+ mile trip.
