The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The day we have waited for is finally here, so we pulled out of White Oak Shores and headed to Wilmington for the closing.  Now I have been a Realtor for 5 years but have never had a client show up to a closing dragging their home on wheels with them.  Anyway, closing went smooth (I did let go of some tears) and we headed to our gypsy camp.  There were no campgrounds that could accommodate us for 2 months that suited our needs.  I made some phone calls to friends and Lori & Greg Rooker came through for us with a great setup. The lot next to them has a rental house in front and in the back there was a single wide at one time so she made a phone call and we will now call it home for 2 months.  We are pulling water & power from Lori & Greg and using the septic that is on the lot.  There is a garage with a lean-to and a shed, the owner is letting us use the lean-to so we now call it Gypsy Camp all for $200 a month!  That's the Good, now for the Bad & the Ugly...

So we are driving to Gypsy Camp and I ask my wonderful husband if he needed me to get out and make sure we can get into the driveway but he said "No honey I checked it out last week and we are fine".  As we pull in looking up at the trees and power lines all of a sudden the caravan lands in the ditch!!!




Not a pretty sight




The caravan is about 1" from landing on the truck bed




The neighbors came out of the woodwork and we knew there was no way we were getting out of the situation without help.  Call a wrecker please...we were so worried we had done damage to the caravan, needless to say it was a very stressful situation.  We just sold our sticks and bricks and now our caravan is in the ditch.  It is amazing how one minute you are riding on cloud nine and the next minute you are freaking out!



The wrecker showed up in 10 minutes and did an excellent job of getting us out.  Major lesson learned...yes Bonnie you need to get out of the truck and watch me pull in.  Poor Mark was so upset with himself but luckily there was no damage.  Oh the wrecker guy asked us if we had CoachNet, well the dealer hooked us up with it and they paid the bill in full.  Lesson number two...get CoachNet!  http://nmca.com/services/rv.aspx

 

Fearsome Freddie is our mascot and he was holding on tight though all of it.



So we are now out of the ditch but had to cut some tree limbs to get to the back of the lot.  Again, Greg to the rescue with chainsaw in hand.



Welcome to Gypsy Camp...

The lean-to that we can use

After we got setup in record high temps we had to go get our check, supplies to hook up our power and a late lunch (Mexican and margaritas) then back to the camp.  While we were gone Greg constructed a wonderful bridge to connect us to their lot.  We had to laugh as he spray painted both ends of the bridge in a bright color so we wouldn't have another accident!  By 10pm that night we were finally hooked up with power and water.  

All is good in Gypsy Camp