Day 58 - Change of Plans - TT

If you read my post from yesterday, you would have seen the notice that Thousand Trails posted on their FB page. It's interesting that they opted for that method of communicating as their webpage still has not been updated. I contacted the office here at the park to ask about extending our stay through the end of April. They were flooded with phone calls this morning so after an hour or so, I walked down to pick up the paperwork and pay the 50amp surcharge. Now that I got confirmation on the extension, I changed our reservation in AZ into May and will cancel our reservation in Nevada. When I hear from the glass place, I will reschedule the appointment for May.

I really commend TT for stepping up and doing this. Some of the TT parks, such as those in Riverside County in California are being forced by local government to close along with anyone else offering short-term housing such as hotels/motels, AirBnB, RV parks, and campgrounds. We stayed at two of the four parks in Riverside County last year and I remember that the majority of the residents were annual and seasonal. The actual number of short-term guests was small. It'll be interesting to hear what happens. If all those people need to move out, they would essentially become homeless as their RV is their home.

As you can see, a cold front seems to be moving through the area. But according to the weather forecast, it is supposed to be warming up tonight. Not that it really matters as we have absolutely no plans to go anywhere or do anything. We just refilled all of our prescriptions and picked up groceries. I am still looking for a ladder but that really isn't in the essential category. Maybe the next time we go to Walmart.

Forty-four days. This will be the longest that we've ever stayed at one campground. I wasn’t too worried about the 1100 mile drive in these social-distancing days as we were planning to dry camp and only needed to stop for fuel twice. And with the Love’s app and the TSD fuel card, there is no reason to talk to anyone. But being able to shelter-in-place is probably a better choice these days.

BTW, I filled up the Prius yesterday. Regular unleaded gas was $1.259/gallon and the EFS app was reporting diesel prices around $1.40/gallon. Why are fuel prices dropping?