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Okay, our friends and family in Texas will probably laugh, but it was SO hot here today! We drove from Bangor, Maine to Salisbury, Massachusetts. It took about 4 hours. Our generator is on the fritz so we couldn’t use the big air conditioner. We had fans rigged up next to Max and Mason (M&M), who were, of course, stuck in their car seats and at the mercy of the heat.

The dashboard air conditioner was working, but it just didn’t reach back into the back of the RV far enough. I sat back there with M&M and, with fans on both sides of them, it really wasn’t that bad.

I heard a woman at the store tonight say it was 105 today. I think she exaggerated a bit. Our exterior thermometer on the RV registered 94 today while we were on the highway. At one point, when we were parked, it said 116. That was definitely wrong.

We planned to leave at 7:00 a.m….but actually left at 12:30 p.m. I backed out of the driveway and, as always, met Richard at the park. He followed me in the Suzuki and he hooked it up to the tow bar on the RV. A woman drove up next to me, right as I pulled into the parking lot, rolled down her window, and told me I was dragging a chain. Hmmm. I thought I’d heard something funny back there!

Richard drove, after hooking up the car, and thought he felt something tugging on the RV. He thought maybe the Suzuki steering wheel had locked. So, we pulled off the freeway and he checked it. All was fine. Turned out it was just a really strong wind. Our big RV does tend to swim around on the highway a lot in high winds.

We saw one big accident today. A 18-wheeler had driven off the freeway and all the way into the woods! The entire truck was in the trees. We hope the driver wasn’t hurt.

The trip was very uneventful, thank heavens. After the last month of our lives (three trips to the emergency room in July), we’re praying for a painfully boring trip. We pulled off the freeway in Salisbury and easily found the campground. No vacancies…but we had a reservation. It’s pretty busy here. Lots of people traveling this weekend. The space was a tight squeeze, but I managed to back the RV into it on the first try. The campground owner, who was guiding me, said, “Nice job!”

I replied, “Not bad for a girl, huh?”

I always do the backing up while Richard does most of the forward driving. Ha ha.

We had to run to the store for a few essentials. Max needed floaties (water wings) as he’d waited all day long to go swimming and one of his floaties had popped. We bought some of those, along with clothes pins and a laundry line and a couple of squirt guns and other things, and we then stopped at Salisbury Beach for dinner. There’s a cute little boardwalk-type area here with pizza, ice cream, an arcade…the works. A band was just warming up when we pulled in. We stopped and had Hobo Burgers. They were REALLY good. Garlic, bacon and cheese. LOTS of garlic. Mmmm…

Anyway, we rushed back to the campground because the pool was supposed to close at dusk and, as I said, Max was SO excited about swimming today. We changed into our suits as fast as we could and raced to the pool. We all got in. The water temperature was PERFECT. Not too cold but cool enough to be refreshing after all the sweating we did today.

It was Mason’s very first swim! He doesn’t like cold water so I thought he’d hate it. Boy was I wrong! He splashed and kicked and laughed! He had a blast! Neither he nor Max wanted to get out when it started getting dark.

We came back to the RV and Mason took a nap while Max and I started building a doll house together. No, I’m not kidding. It’s not exactly an RV-friendly craft, but we’re making it work. And it’s something Max really wanted to do.

It’s 10:30 and I’m tired, but I have to get some mail answered before I can go to bed.

More tomorrow!

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