Camper Chronicles day 1

My camper and I arrived at the county park last night at 7:30. As I drove in first, I saw a coyote in the grass 200 feet from my campsite. We unhitched, without too many hitches, and I had PL my truck friend leave the park before they closed the gates at 8pm. I had little food in the camper; just a pack of corn tortillas, some strawberry lemonade and grape jelly. Oh yes, and I had my leftovers from my weekend trip to LA which consisted of a small (very small) bag of garlic pistachios, 3 bananas and 1/8 a bag of Maui onion potato chips. PL says "I'm leaving you here alone, by yourself? I can bring food back to the park gate if you like..." but I only needed clean water, so she left me 2 bottles of water and was on her way. Suddenly, it was quiet. Very quiet.

That's when I realized I needed a shopping list. Lubricant for squeaking parts on the camper (the levels, the jack, parts of the hitch) and toilet paper. I'd forgotten tp! I drove down to the main campground bathrooms and realized that the small ball field was FULL of deer. It was just after sunset and I could only see black shadows against the gray background of the campsite. I saw the buck and his big rack, excused myself to head for the bathrooms, and went inside to use their facilities. In the dark. There are no electric lites. Flashlight - I need to bring my flashlight home from work. It's a windup kind so needs no batteries. Back up to my campsite, I heard a new noise I don't ever recall hearing 'live and in person,' a hooting owl. He hooted and hooted for a good hour or so.

For dinner I had about 20 pistachios and some water. I wasn't very hungry, mostly thirsty as I was quite dehydrated from the weekend. While I sat at my dinette, I read some of my trailer manuals and found that the little vented brown thing under the stove that kept kicking off and on seemed to be an electric converter. I believe it's the cooling fan that I hear since it expresses a bit of slightly warm air at the same time. I'll look into it further this afternoon.

Once the tent campers shut off their radio at 10pm, I was able to fall asleep easily and stay asleep most of the night. That is until the sun started to come up and then I heard noises around my camper. I couldn't see anything out the windows - it was probably birds. A scrub jay kept flying back and forth making the worst noises. If it was my place, I would pick him off with a nice little .22.