The Camp
Carolina guys were here again with another batch of boys. They had 14 campers
on one site, while the limit is six. I remind them every time they come and he
always acts surprised. There were hammocks hanging between trees on both side
of the path from Site 6 to Site 10.
When we walked
back through the parking lot, we stopped to see what was going on with four
young men at a KIA. A big, beefy one was in the back seat busy with some task.
Turns
out, they had locked the keys in the trunk. They had called AAA, but the charge
was going to be $300 for a new key. One of them suggested cutting a hole in the
back seat, behind the fold-down arm rest.
Once the hole
was cut, one of the guys reached his arm through and was pulling stuff out of
the trunk through the hole. They already had their packs outside. Locking the
keys in the trunk was the last thing they did while getting ready to hike.
Finally, he was able to drag the keys forward with a stick. They all celebrated
and congratulated each other for their parts in the retrieval effort.
This was their
last hike together before they leave for college. The big guy in the red shorts
is going to the naval academy. Two others are going to study engineering at the
University of Tennessee. I didn’t get the future of the fourth. They had been
in the parking lot for over three hours. They must have taken their planned
hike to Mount Sterling, but we didn’t see them or the car when we walked
through the parking lot in the evening.
An interesting
bad feature about this car is that the latch to lay the back seat down is in
the trunk. It is in the top left corner of this picture, but they couldn’t
reach it through the hole. It must have seemed like a good design at KIA. You want to put the back seat down when you
are trying to put something big in the trunk.
They did not consider the keys in the trunk scenario.
Maintenance
Linda was parked in the parking lot and cleaning the toilet building. She said
she would stop in to see us when she finished cleaning. We made a quick trip to
the post office in Hartford to pick up the box from JR Smullen while she was finishing.
When JR read
that we drove to the Costco in Knoxville to buy the Motorola radios like we had
and gave away a few years back, he sent me an email saying he had a set we
could have. He and Peg had used them for their move from Maryland to Florida
and not since. When we were in the coffee shop sending and receiving email, he
called us when he received his, knowing we were in town with a signal. He said
he did not want us to pay him, he considered it his subscription to my logs
since 2001. Thank you JR! It was a bit
like Christmas when we got home and Andy opened the box.
Linda came to
the RV while we were eating. I gave her a plastic bag of strawberries to take
to Spence. She told us that they plan to reopen the Cosby campground on Sunday.
Boss Larry came
by in the afternoon just as we finished taking down the screen room and packing
it into the motorhome. We heard him on the radio reporting that he was driving
someone from Cosby to Big Creek. I served him some peach cobbler while we
talked. He promised to tell Heath how good it was.
We realized in
the evening that we have misplaced the telephone. The last time we used it was
in the Mellow Mushroom on Father’s Day. We spent some time looking for it. I
hate looking for lost things. I’ll search the car again tomorrow in the
daylight.
On the radio
A man fell and cut his head and neck at Cataract
Fall, near park headquarters. The person calling 700 said there was a lot of
blood.
A motorhome (about 30 feet) was off the road and
hanging over a cliff on the Little River Road, near the Townsend “Y”. The
reporting party said no one was in danger. The husband was walking down the
road for help and the wife was with the motorhome.
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