Day 1
On Friday, we set out on our adventure. We had planned to leave around noon, but,
with all of the usual last minute things that had to be done, we didn’t leave
until about 3:30PM. Our original plan
was to drive to St. Louis and get there in time to have dinner, relax a bit and
then get a good night sleep before hitting the road the next day. As it worked out, we stopped outside of St.
Louis to have some dinner because we were all hungry and we realized we were
going to be arriving at the RV park after dark anyway. We stopped in a Wal-Mart parking lot so we
could grab a few groceries we needed and fix some dinner.
We were so excited that our RV had an over-the-range
microwave and we brought quite a few microwavable foods for quick meals on the
road. My son loves corn dogs, so we
offered to fix those for him after he rejected all of the nearby restaurants
that were within walking distance of the Wal-Mart parking lot. We made sure the generator was turned on and
I prepared to fix the corn dogs. This is
where we encountered a problem. The
microwave wouldn’t work. We tried
flipping breakers, plugging the microwave into different plugs, etc. Nothing worked. My son whined that he was hungry and wanted
his corn dogs. We called the RV owners
and they had no idea what could be wrong either. We finally decided it was probably a fuse in
the microwave- not something we could fix ourselves. It was getting rather late and we were all
tired and hungry. My husband, daughter,
and I got food at a nearby restaurant to go.
My son ate some snack food we had and said he was full. We continued on to our first campsite.
We arrived at the Lakeside 370 campground in St. Louis after
dark. We picked up our paperwork at the
office and proceeded to our site. My
husband managed to park the RV and get the hookups done in the dark quite
well. I was impressed, but also rather
exhausted. We slid out the sides of the
RV making it a much larger living space.
I pulled out the queen size sofa bed and made it up for our daughter and
flipped open the other couch to make another full-size bed for our son. We all collapsed into bed and went to
sleep.
Lakeside 370 was a pretty RV park right by a small lake in
St. Louis. I decided to take a shower
using the park’s facilities the next morning.
Rather than being inside a restroom, it was a single unisex room with a
door that locked. The shower contained
several bugs, one of the flying biting variety I soon found out. I took a very quick shower while shooing away
the biting fly. I decided perhaps the RV
shower would be a better bet in the future.
My husband decided to take a quick shower in the RV. As soon as he started running water down the drain,
a horrible smell emerged from the drain.
It smelled like cat urine, only worse.
I googled bad smell from drain in RV and found that, apparently, this is
a very common problem. I found that it
is a result of not keeping the drain trap filled with water. We flushed water down the drain for about 20
minutes and the smell went away.
We folded up the beds, slid in the slides, and set out for
the next leg of our trip- a 6 hour drive to Salina, KS.
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