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Picking up our camper at
Five Star RV, the dealer we chose after a long and exhaustive
search. They treated us right and we recommend them. We got on
the road to get the car and drop off the truck at Five Star at 9
am. Sasha had to leave me at Enterprise because the guy was not
there at 9 am; he had to drop off a car to someone else. I
talked to some retirees who pick up and drive cars and trucks to
different Enterprise locations; they came from Cheyenne, WY.
Once the guy came back, we looked over the car (a blue one) and
I was off to find Sasha. Although I thought I was going the
wrong way, a common problem for me without a compass, I managed
to find him at the Five Star RV Center without getting too lost.
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Picking up our camper at Five Star RV!
Once there, Sasha got a time frame of when we
were supposed to come back ~3pm and we went to have Breakfast -
Village Inn. Sasha said that there are a lot of Village Inns in
Colorado, good places to get breakfast, lunch or dinner at any
time of the day. We both had a more healthy breakfast of fake
egg and veggie omelets, with fruit and whole grain pancakes.
Very nice breakfast that was our lunch as well. After breakfast,
we went back to the motel (Super 8) and I just paid a little
more to have a 3 pm checkout.
Sasha and I snoozed for a little bit and
then I did some work while Sasha snoozed for a little longer. We
left the motel at 3pm where it was drizzling, and 60 F. At Five
Star they did not have our truck ready yet so we went to
Wal-Mart, and picked up bed-sheets and towels to match our
colors in the camper. Then we went back to Village Inn and had
an early dinner (I totally felt like the episode in Seinfeld
where he had dinner with his parents down in Florida at 5 pm -
but we had dinner at 4 pm.) We brought in the laptop and Sasha
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Let's go inside... |
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Virgin kitchenette |
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Unmade bed |
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and Table Slide out |
1:00 am- got the necessities,
including bottom sheet and extra pillows. Plus paper supplies, water,
and some snacks. It took a while to get everything at Wal-Mart as it was
so late at night; there was no one to help us find anything. I guess
they do the shelf stocking at night and there were boxes everywhere.
Very hard to get to things needed. And we could not find Blankets for
the life of us. The guy stated that they don't have winter coats either,
so maybe they don't have blankets when it is spring. Whatever.
(Sasha) Well, after picking up
camper, the very "green" duo
head to a local Wal-Mart to
stock up on supplies and
provisions for the road ahead.
We choose to shop at Wal-Mart as
they are "RV and camper
friendly", allowing customers to
overnight in their parking lots.
Not that we particularly like
camping in a mega store parking
lot, but when it's 11 pm, dark
and you're tired and just want
to sleep, it sure is convenient
in a pinch not to have to find
the closest campground or public
lands to "dry
camp" or "boondock".
And the price is right. In
return, we dropped a couple
hundred bucks with Sam Walton
and patronized a local Mexican
restaurant in the same shopping
center.
Check out once we leave the Walmart and start the first
adventure: Walmart to Colorado
Springs.
Our Vacation is over, but you can check out our
Full Time Adventure starting in
2007.
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