e accompanying picture).Our next seminar presentations will take place at The Rally in Perry, Georgia from March 13th through the 17th. In the meantime we will spend the next ten days sitting next to the ocean at Ocean Lakes Campground here in Myrtle Beach.
This will be the longest stretch of time we have ever spent in one campground. We have some business chores to attend to, a few articles to write, and some restaurants to visit. Vicki will use the campsite's telephone hookup to make a number of 800 phone calls; I will stare at the ocean while holding a laptop in my lap; and we will visit places where I can get philly cheese-steak sandwiches and Vicki can put a serious dent in the sealife population.
We will also put the finishing touches on a new seminar, "The RVer's Kitchen", that Vicki will present at The Rally. During her seminar, Vicki will provide some observations on what to look for in the kitchen when choosing an RV. She will also share some ideas on quick and easy cooking and offer a number of helpful tips for using a combination microwave-convection oven. The seminar is based upon her book, My RV Kitchen and Favorite Recipes.
Well, as Gilda Radner's character, Rosanna Rosanna Dana on Saturday Night Live, used to say, "Its always something!" Rosanna must have been an RVer. Yesterday, while traveling the back roads from Charlotte to Myrtle Beach, we lost the outside access door to our RV's water heater compartment. How it happened, I don't have a clue. It was there and properly latched before we left the Charlotte KOA. It was absent when I walked our rig during our lunch stop. Also missing was a bent piece of wire, a little thicker than a coat hanger wire, that acts as a hinge pin. I had visions of us looking like the grapes of wrath while we waited for a replacement to be shipped from the factory (if they had one).
As soon as we settled into our campsite I called the Myrtle Beach Camping World parts department. The parts person said "Oh man, we did inventory last week and I threw out a half dozen of them things. Let me see if I can find one." He called back a few minutes later to let me know he had one left and would hold it for me. He also had a replacement "hinge pin". The green lower portion of our motorhome now has a shiny new cream-colored water-heater door. Its always something!
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