Ripoff RV Park

November 10-11, 2012

Saturday was the same weather as the day before.   Blustery and cold, with alternating periods of snow and sun.   We were planning on making our move to an RV park on Monday (so as to best avoid crowds and traffic).   But, alas, our black tank filled up so we clearly had to plan on moving the next morning.   Still quite cold overnight…mid 20s.   But, the new batteries worked great and we had furnace heat all night.    Not only did the batteries run the furnace all night, but they got us coffee made the next morning and the slides moved in and the landing gear moved.  All still without need of a genny boost.   Hooray!     It’s really quite a relief over the despair we felt when things didn’t work as expected.   It used to suck not having heat in the middle of the night.

Sunday: we left camp around 8:30 and drove the 7 miles into Kernville to hit up the Laundromat.   We wanted to get pillowcases done now that we’ve successfully finished our icky portion of going “no champoo”.   This is something we’ve read about on other RV blogs…training your hair to become accustomed to being without shampoo.   When you plan to be boondocking most of the time, it’s really pretty crucial to be able to save water by not having to shampoo every 3^rd day.    We both get pretty oily hair after a day or 2 of not showering.   When you go off the champoo, you’re supposed to expect 2 weeks of disgusting, oily, hideous hair.  But you have to suffer through it to get to the point where your hair stops overproducing oils.   So…we’ve been champoo free for this whole road trip.   It wasn’t pretty, which is why there have been no pictures (or close pictures) of either of us.   It’s kind of amazing how it’s actually worked.   We use baking soda to rub into our roots when we need to clean our hair.   We’ve been told to expect to get by with only cleaning once a week.   We’ll have to see if that time frame works for us.   For now…we’re optimistic that this will work for us and we’ll be able to extend our time off the grid

After doing laundry, we stopped at the RV park we’d picked out.   It’s the only one that had wifi.   When we paid for our night ($50!), we found out that they don’t allow any downloading on the wifi.   WTF????   We’re getting cockblocked at every turn in California.   (Where cock=decent wifi).   This hampers our plan of loading up on shows before heading into the boonies again for 3 weeks.   Seems we’ll have to visit the internet café tomorrow morning and see what we can get in the few hours before we have to check out.   The other thing that sucks about this place is that the showers are coin operated.  We were both pissed at finding that out.   That was the other thing we were expecting to get for our fee…unlimited hot-water showers.   This place is a total rip off.    At least I’m making some of my money back in doggy do-do bags.   And I’m tempted to leave the TV running all night just to waste some of their electricity.   Hmph.