Some of you aren’t old enough or don’t live in the USA to know that this was the first lyric in a TV show song. It was a TV show where Eddie Albert playing a rich New York attorney and his wife played by Eva Gabor played farmer. Kind of our life experience except Jo was the New Yorker when we had our farm in Brownfield Maine. I remember my mom sitting out on the back deck of our farmhouse asking if we liked the smell of manure lol. And my NY brother in law locking his car despite the odds of anyone driving by let alone breaking in close to minus zero. Habits. But I digress.
Todays trip was an overnight on our way too Napa. This park was rated highly despite being in the city. After a few weird RV GPS twists and turns in town which didn’t seem necessary but its a RV GPS so maybe it was a clearance or wt limit thing. But we made it to the park and were greeted by a very friendly park owner who was training someone and said we don’t need him to sign this paper about the rules which he already signed on line (I did?). I suspect I did but didn’t remember as they are all the same. Park on the site not the grass, quiet hours 10PM-8am, Speed limit 5 mph etc. And off we went to our site. Oh and the las few places we have been all said you must be William Brewster in my mind meaning they don’t get a lot of transients as most are seasonal a trend we’ve seen all over.
The site was a nice level spacious level pad with plenty of room and we were soon hooked up and settled.
One of my projects was to try to find and fix the leak around the front window. I hope i fixed it by tightening a loose window latch but just in case had some caulk and while there (despite rules not to work on RV) I dismantled the window guards and cleaned all the seams and caulked around where I think the leak could have been. There are more possibilities but fingers crossed this will fix it. So far the weather has been dry since the leak so time will tell. And no one yelled at me.
As is our usual out west we were across the street from train tracks but only a few polite short whistles during the night. I did have to get up once to shut off the heat pump on the roof over our beds and switched to the front heat pump as there seemed to be a rattle I hadn’t heard before. Let’s hope that isn’t a harbinger of issues with it.
We walked around the cleanest neatest RV park we’ve ever been in and found a Koi pond and waterfall. One of my wants for our perfectly sloped side hill in Maine. Jo isn’t a fan of that idea but we will see. Not sure I will be able to have fish as not sure what to do with them when winter and not there.
After a reasonably restful stay at a lovely stop with new caulk and clean front windows (I don’t think I have mentioned just how dirty our airstream is from the early Philly rain and the western dirt but it is filthy …. Except the front window thanks to the leak) we headed out for the Napa Valley with a wine testing scheduled as well as one of our first dinners out on the trip.
Oh and Jo decided this clean park was a perfect time to wash and groom Mocha lol. She keeps him looking handsome.
Bill and Jo’s Road Trip 
Great adventures again. Goodness, it really wouldn’t do, in England, if no maintenance is allowed on your RV / Caravan. The damn things are so badly built, over here, that our first weekend trip of any season is mostly spent fixing things and sealing leaks. One time, we were on a Church weekend, and our polite lady Church Warden was parked next to us… I was having so much trouble with the blasted cheaply built heater, that WOULD NOT go back together properly, that Beth had to go around and apologise for the evening’s lesson in Anglo- Saxon, from the rude Naval Officer! (Spoiler for the old film: There’s no such thing as ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’!).
Have fun,especially the newly frou-frou’d Mocha!
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