Today we had an interesting day. The trip from Peggy’s Cove to Moncton, NB was very uneventful but it did rain the whole way. We were on the interstate for most of the trip and Lizzie behaved herself. We did not have any strange directions.
When we got to the park in Moncton we did not know what we were in for in this park. The driveway was paved and lined with trees, but the drive had a severe downgrade. When we got to the bottom of the drive everything looked good. When Walt came out with our site number I could not believe it was on a grassy field where the grass had just been mowed and it had rained most of the day. The staff was trimming trees at the back of our lot because the mountain (name for a huge self contained unit) next to us needed more height so they could get the RV back far enough to park. They started trimming our tree also so we could back into the lot.
Then interesting things started to happen. The lot was very uneven and slanted to one side. Walt did the directions and I did the backing. We were on wet grass and with the rugged terrain I had to really watch what I was doing. When we got on the site Walt checked the angle and we put 4 inches of blocks under the off door side. The jacks went down very well even though we also had to put extra blocks on the off door side. Then when I backed up and Walt released the latch on the hitch we were still doing okay. Then I slowly pulled forward and the RV jumped and we had the RV unlatched from the hitch but not able to move out of the hitch area. We definitely were anxious about the fact that we had a 8 ton home balanced on a sliding hitch. Well, after a few attempts to get the hitch latched again we had to do something different. I was sitting behind the wheel asking the Lord to get us out of this very perilous situation. All I could think of having the front of our home go down on the ground. Well, the good Lord helped Walt adjust the height of the RV on the jacks and we finally got it hitched again. Then we attempted another unhitch and it finally went fine. Our trouble was that we had leveled the trailer but had not leveled the truck. So I guess we had some operator error and some site problems. We have done hundreds of unhitches, so we got some more experience of what to do.
Thank God for his inspiration so we could fix the problem. The rest of the day we relaxed and planned our Saturday trips.
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