Our scheduled event for today was to do the dreaded laundry in the campground laundry facility. However, we got a very slow start, choosing instead to lounge around, watch TV and perform almost any function other than washing clothes until around 4:00 PM.
The laundry facility here has machines that only take a card to pay for the machines to function. This is a clever strategy by park management to enrich themselves since the card itself costs something and actual usable funds hidden in it’s little electronic mind must be purchased in $5 increments. The cost of the machine use does not have any multiples that divide $5 evenly so the park management ends up with the difference, generally about $4.
After our almost full day of doing nothing, we took off just after 4:00 PM to go to the park store to buy the management-enriching laundry required to be used in the laundry which is housed in a different building than the store. We had all our laundry aboard Charlotte and I dropped Peggy off at the store to purchase the card while I turned the truck around. The laundry is open from 8:00 AM to 11:30 PM but, unfortunately, the cards needed to do the wash are only available until 4:00 PM so we had narrowly missed the boat and went back home. Maybe tomorrow.