This morning we woke up knowing we had to take Charlotte to the Ford dealership in Bowling Green for her 5000 mile check-up and oil change. We had plenty of time in the morning before we had to take off for dealer so we got to take showers and make a big breakfast before departure. It was about 30 miles to Bowling Green and we got to the Ford dealer 10 minutes early and Greenwood Ford was ready for us.
While waiting for the oil change, Peg resolved some more problems regarding our Visa card which has attempted to become the bane of our existence. Surprisingly, the Virgin phone works in Kentucky and that’s strange because it hardly works anywhere. We have received not less than 3 stories about our replacement cards from Visa; 1. New cards were mailed to our home address on July 28th which turned out to be a big lie, 2. New cards were mailed to our home on August 3rd which may or may not have been true because we ain’t in San Diego to find out, and 3. New cards issued today will be UPS overnight delivered to us here tomorrow which we will find out whether it is true or not tomorrow. We eagerly await results so we can call Visa and razz them some more.
Greenwood Ford finished our truck in record time for a Ford dealer and we left the dealer for a free car wash they gave us for getting our oil changed there. Charlotte came out of the car wash looking all sparkly and clean. Next we went to Chuck’s Liquors, a place shown as having 5 stars by Beer Advocate on the internet, and picked up a case of porter, a bottle of Jack Daniels and two bottles of Irish Cream and left there with big grins on our faces. We drove back down the same road that has both the Ford dealer and the car wash on it and went to a Ryan’s restaurant. We went to a Ryan’s in South Carolina with our friends Gary and D’Ann and it was terrific. This restaurant in Bowling Green does not have the same great food we got in Greer, SC. From Ryan’s, we drove back down the same street again to a Scab-Mart and stocked up on groceries.
We returned home with our happy truck, booze and groceries as soon as we left Wal-Mart because it was about 95 degrees outside but the humidity was only about 85%. It was pretty oppressive but all our shopping is done for a week or two, all our truck maintenance is done until we go south of the Mason-Dixon line in October or November and we are well stocked with booze which should last for a couple days.
After we got home and took a nap, the neighbor in the park, Laurie, came over and gave us a brand new Good Sam campground directory which she had received at Camping World for free. We needed a new one because ours was two years old and getting pretty ragged in addition to being out-of-date. We are not always happy campers when we have to do the mundane tasks associated with long-term loafing but today felt very successful and we can sleep tonight without thinking of any woes unless the jerks at Visa let us down again which is highly likely.