Day 49

Dec 8 – Day

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize this, but, I’m now aware I save money, enough to buy a campsite, if I stay in one place for a while.  Fifty dollars or so a day of driving for gas, can instead buy a couple of days of electricity and water, especially with the use of my America the Beautiful lifetime pass.  If you don’t have yours, get it now before the price goes up.  It allows you to cut your rent in half for national campgrounds.  Wow. 

So, I’m pulling in late to my campsite near New Orleans.  It was getting dark but I was confident I could manage, and I did, except for one thing. I should have been aware, with the word bayou in the title of the campground, but I was blissfully clueless.  I get my trailer into its spot just fine.  I get out to unhitch and hook up, and suddenly I am batting and swatting.  The mosquitos are ferocious.  This is a first in both years of road tripping.  I have not faced the dreaded insect until now. 

I stopped dead in my tracks and decided any “unpacking” could wait until tomorrow.  I run for the car, drag Cooper out, and say “Go pee! Go pee quick!” I’m pretty sure I scared him badly, but there I was standing at the trailer door being inundated with the little buzzing things, wanting to escape and he was taking his time (not really but it felt that way.)  By the time we got into the trailer, it was abuzz with these awful critters and I have spent the days since trying to kill every single one.  Oh, by the way, the car still has leftovers too.  I can’t say here what I say to them as I’m driving down the road, when suddenly there’s a rogue mosquito there in front of me, bouncing off the inside of my windshield. 

Grrrrrrrr