#280 Jordan Lake Poplar Point till Thanksgiving

We went to loop E because it's the one that's open in the winter they don't do a lot of reservation stuff at this time of the year and so there's just the walk-in loop called E.

We used it so often that whenever we would get home we'd say where do you live and we would say E and it became a big joke with us.

For my purposes, it reminded me of something that a friend of mine Kevin said about the folks at work at Thomasville furniture. Sometimes the people that work there have been working there for generations and most people lived in tight-knit communities. Everybody worked at the mill so it's just a matter of which building you worked in. When somebody says where you are working these days you just say C and they know you're talking about Thomasville furniture. You just say I’m working over at E.

That's why it was so funny for us every time we entered the campground. Where do yall live now and well say “E”?

I had the RV dried in now and I just was pausing here to reflect on how I totaled the RV. Damage control was done but the rig still looked rough. It was just not leaking, and the ceiling was shored up. One of the pictures I took was rather humorous because we had finished the fall excursion trying to find some brilliant colors and when I got back to Apex I was in Lowe's parking lot and saw some of the prettiest colors. Better than I had seen in the mountains.

I had bought a device called a wee-boost that I wanted to try out. Our site was down by a swampy lake and I could just barely get my T-Mobile to work. It was almost non-existent so I've been thinking about trying to amplify the signal. I bought this boost thing and when I put the antenna about on a 10-ft pole higher than the roof I got a very good reception. It was a great solution for quite a while. Every time we're in the area we try to help out with Ben's bus a little bit and I continue to shore up the RV interior ceiling.

I guess the RV would never be quite the same but I would have at least fixed it as best I could.

I had talked to the people at the RV place and they had given me an estimate but it was somewhere between 15 and $20,000 in the RV only valued about 17 so it was a complete total loss.

They would continue to process all this and it will take a little while and I wouldn't have a firm answer until we got towards my little sister's house at Thanksgiving when we would have a very interesting discussion about the future of our rig