Like the birds we are flying south….

Well, we are trying to fly south.

We had planned on leaving Nanticoke on Tuesday with a first stop at the Delaware DMV to have the rig inspected for another two years.

But Wednesday the weather called for rain everywhere we were headed. Why drive in the rain when you don’t have to be anywhere?  We decided we could wait another day. It turned out to be a great choice as we spent the afternoon playing cards and Larry came over to teach us a new, really fun card game called ‘Three Down’. Then in the evening we went to Boonies for 1/2 price burger night. There were 13 of us in the group and so besides really good burgers, we had lots of great laughs. Back home we played a little more cards and then went to bed with plans to leave on Thursday.

Thursday dawned cool, but clear. We finished getting ready, mom fixed us a great breakfast of egg gravy on toast, and we pulled out for the DMV. Another snafu awaited us…the rig didn’t pass inspection! One of the rv brakes was not catching as it should. As we had recently had new brakes installed at the dealer in Smith Center, we were a little frustrated. However, we remembered an RV center just up the road so we drove on. After waiting for them to return from lunch, we had the brakes adjusted, drove back to the DMV and passed inspection. On the road again!

We were only going another 120 miles that day with a stop just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Pulled in late in the afternoon, hooked up the electric (nothing else available this time of year), heated up some soup, and with plans to pull out in the morning, we hit the bed before 9:00.

Our first night on the road was Cherrystone RV Park in Cheriton, Va. It’s a large RV park that is full and busy during the summer, but cold and empty in the winter. Thankfully they stay open all winter even though there are very few campers. Here we are all alone:

 

 

Woke up during the night to some serious wind! By the time we got up in the morning, the wind was really blowing across the bay. We decided we would again sit out the bad weather. It turned out to be another good decision as the bridge was closed to all large vehicles due to the high wind gusts. We took a quick ( and cold ) walk around the park and then settled in for the day.

 

Tomorrow  we will fly south……???