Moving Day

Packing up & heading to Washington D.C.. After we get CC all set to leave Jackie & the boys head to Jamestown Settlement to use our rain checks.

Rita & I are taking CC to Cherry Hill RV park in College Park, MD. It's a 166 mile drive and should take two & half hours. Without towing Rita's car these should be a piece of cake. Are you sensing something???

Wouldn't be "The Adventures of CC & Me" without adventures. We have a new GPS device for CC. It's pretty cool, it knows our height, weight and how much propane & diesel we carry. It uses this info to route us around restrictions. So what happened was we were routed around DC. Unfortunately we got delayed by a bad traffic accident. Well we never saw the accident. It was way ahead of us. But I'm driving a 43 foot coach in bumper to bumper traffic covering about a mile every hour.

We decided to take a risk & leave the Interstate and see if we could drive around the accident. It seems simple enough. We've done it before, in the Midwest. It's not quite the same here.

We slowly negotiated to an outside lane then finally took an exit. Whoopee. Now we're in downtown Bethesda, then Chevy Chase, then the next charming freaking town. All with narrow roads & traffic. See this 2 1/2 hour ride is nearing 4 hours. You know what that means? Let's throw rush hour traffic into the mix. Did I say whoopee!

Holy crap. We were sort of committed to driving in this, umm, I'm trying to think of something polite to say.

I was pretty tense. We went through some very narrow streets, winding through towns. But we persevered, And popped out on the interstate one mile past the traffic jam from hell.

Turns out we had about six miles to go & we were at the resort. Instead of a short quick drive we had a five hour ordeal.

We had called Jackie and gave her a heads up. I thought she might beat us to the resort. But her & the boys spent most of the day in Williamsburg sightseeing & Geo Cacheing.

The park is great. It's huge!!

After we got set up & opened up some well deserved wine, I walked over to some neighbors to say hi. And I walk into side by side Country Coaches. They were occupied by two couples who are full timer RVers from California.

We toured each other coaches and they started telling me everything I needed to do to "dial CC in". Because once she's dialed in, there isn't a better coach in the world. They talked & talked & talked. Jackie & the boys showed up & they talked & talked.........

So I need to figure all this out. Maybe a call to the previous owner to see what he has done under the hood.

A lot to learn & understand.

At least I'm over the ride up, whew.....

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