Well, we did not get a very good night’s sleep and felt it when we got up in the morning. The traffic and traffic noise was even worse during the night. As the trucks were barreling down the highway it felt like the ground was in constant motion with all the shaking going on. Ron had thought about moving and going to another rest area but didn’t want to chance there not being one available with an open parking spot.
The fog in the morning was like pea soup and took quite a while to burn off. Ron had researched CG’s and found one about 250 miles from Midland , so we were on our way again. I plugged the CG into our Garmin NU Vii and we were back on the road tired but determined to get some miles under us.
We got off on exit 380 as directed by our GPS and then were routed down a road that didn’t seem right to Ron. He had checked the location out on Google Maps and said that the CG should be 1/2 mile off the exit. Well, we went down this country road then were directed down another country road then to what looked like a dirt road. Ron kept saying “this isn’t right!.” When we were directed to take this narrow little road I noticed a sign indicating a weight restricted bridge so told Ron with a “high pitched voice” - don’t go down there. As it turned out we were lucky enough to stop at a fire station on this remote road so we could unhook the car and turn the MH around.
On our way out of this area we saw another MH coming our way and waved them down. They were trying to get to the same CG and their GPS routed them the same way. They also had to go to the fire station to get turned around.
The exit to the CG was 386 not 380 and was 1/2 mile off the exit just as Ron had remembered – except he didn’t remember the exit number. Of course as the navigator, that was my job. I trusted our GPS too much and both Nu Vii and I failed miserably.
One would think that once we arrived at the CG our problems would be over. Well they kind of were except for the guy in the office going off on a tangent when I told him we were Passport America members. He went on a rant about some guy that caused $3000.00 worth of damage to a site because he got stuck in the mud up to his frame and had to be towed. This guy wanted the customer to pay for damages and threatened to call the sheriff while the wife was crying etc, etc , ect. So then he called Passport America and cancelled his affiliation as of that very morning so we were told we could either pay the full price or he would help us turn around.
The guy was an A— but since we were tired and the next closest CG was 90 miles away we opted to stay. The other couple was also standing there listening to this idiot but they stayed too. He continued to rant about Passport America customers being the cause of all of his issues ( I think he had a LOT of unrelated issues) and that is why he was in a rant about a lot of nothing.
It was unfortunate that we had to run into such a jerk because the CG is really beautiful and well maintained. We did check out the site that was “destroyed “ by the poor guy that got stuck in the mud. And, by the way, it is the responsibility of the CG to make sure their customers can get in and out without getting into a bad situation. So the guy in the office was way off base.
They have experienced an unusual amount of rain here saturating the ground. This is where the guy got stuck – didn’t look like $3000.00 worth of damage to us. Nothing that a shovel and rake couldn’t fix since it was just a pile of mud.
At dinner Ron and I discussed the situation and determined that the guy in the office was very demeaning to both us and the the other couple also Passport America members. I wrote a very negative but accurate review of the situation on YELP and hope that the owner of the CG reads it. Interestingly, all the comments that are written about this CG are from Passport America customers. So it would appear that dropping their Passport America account will cost them a lot of customers that would stop there for an overnight stay.
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