Friday, April 20, 2007

Chantilly,VA and on to Cherry Hill, MD April 19th and 20th

Actually got up pretty early, from our Walmart slumber. I went in to Camping world and picked up parts to fix and upgrade the water heater, and some other stuff, while B preened for her meeting. Dropped her off at the conference, and Delilah and I worked on the RV. Finally fixed the water heater (but ironically, didn't have water to shower yet), and added an electric heater for the water also - so it will heat off of park power, or gas... Redundancy is good.
Also got a few other odds and ends:
* Wrap around mat for the entry step
* Replacement screws for the A/C vent
* External holder for the sewer hose
* Vent cover for the fan vent
* Napkin holder for ease of access
* FRS/Weather radios
* Replacement switch for fresh water tank test
While at Camping World, there was another fellow with water heater problems. At least good to be in company.

After the presentation, we headed out to our camp ground on Cherry Hill, where we are staying for three nights. Deluxe place, with all sorts of amenities - not just the standard 15/30/50A power, water, and sewer, but the occasional cable hookup and one hour (yes, only 1) of wi-fi. Managed to eat up the one hour before posting this yesterday, thus had to wait for me to set up satellite today, and back on line. They actually have a conference center here, offer tours, have two pools, jacuzzi, sauna, laundry (just spent 2 hours and $14 on laundry), and a huge store with both regular camp items, and RV specialty stuff. Nice place - but it ought to be for $50/night!

Here for a couple more days - probably tour DC tomorrow, and then take off probably up the coast at a leisurely pace, assuming that the weather is more to our liking by then. We'll see!

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