Camper Chronicles day 4

In all fairness, I'll make the correction now. Those who are regularly in travel trailers don't call them campers, as that assumes you are only camping. And they don't call them trailers cause, well, that leads people to consider the term "trailer trash." It's called a rig. So there...

Day's 2 and 3 were fairly uneventful in my rig. Crickets sang all night again, others in my camping area came and went during the night keeping me awake, and I had chinese food for dinner both nights (leftovers on day 3).

On day 3, while eating my leftovers, I was reading a magazine that was 2 years old and one article spoke about making light over little accomplishments. If we only enjoy the big goals, we may wait a long time to celebrate and that would make it seem the little goals don't matter - but they do. And they matter a lot, so be proud of your little goals! I had 2 little goals to celebrate last night. I had never started a charcoal fire and I was able to do that without a starter or any fluid. It took a while, I thought I had failed at one point, but in the end dinner for 2 days was completed and I was proud. My dinner included a chicken breast on the bone, some grilled onions and cous cous from the microwave.

My other goal was to disconnect my propane tanks and take them in to swap them for refills. I was able to shut off the tanks, disconnect them and pull them off the rig only to find that they both still had propane in the bottom. I reconnected them both, turned one of them back on and went inside to cook some bacon for my morning breakfast. This may seem VERY minor to some, but it was major accomplishements for me. Little goals, big successes, big big happy!

Oh, and my biggest happy was about 3 or 4 this morning. Another night of tossing and turning, I had just fallen back to sleep when I heard it RIGHT outside my rig. Ow Ow Owwwwwwwww I grabbed my phone, set it to record sound, and got a full minute of that coyote on the ridge right behind me howling like crazy. S/he stayed and sang for only a few minutes and I got two 30 second recordings. Note to self: Get a good digital recorder for the wonderful sounds I hear at night as cell phone recordings don't do it justice.