Wed. Oct. 26, 2011

Paupers Pride is on the road again! After several emotional, stressful weeks following the passing of my Mom, Sept.26, we decided to get away for a few relaxing days,before we close up the motor home for the winter. We decided to go to Galena. We stayed at a campground in a state park in Bellvue, Iowa last night, but we had no internet access, or no TV reception, we did have a few dvd's with us, so we watched them. In fact, we were the only campers in the whole park! We had a cook-out & then sat by a campfire. Then it started to get dark, & I mean DARK! There were no lights at all, because they shut off the water & night lights for the end of the season Oct. 24 (two days earlier) We were able to plug into the electric & we had water in our tanks. There was a notice to "after season campers" to leave the fee in the envelopes provided & place in the lock-box,& the electricity could still be used. (it's like the honor system for campers) It was a little scary knowing that we were the only ones there! I didn't sleep very well, I was up several times just checking out the dark outside. Of course Richard slept like a rock, as usual.

Thurs. Oct 27, 2011

Well this morning started out with a rain shower, then it cleared up. While I was fixing breakfast, Richard decided to do a little exploring of the park & went on a walk trail, but --- he had diarrhea in the morning & nature decided to call while he was out on the trail. He had no choice but to answer the call right where he was. But the leaves on the ground were wet from the rain & he slipped down a hill & fell and while he was rolling down the hill, the call from nature was taking place!! He at first thought he broke his leg, but he was able to crawl back up the hill & make it back to the motor-home. I had breakfast all ready & he came in covered with poop!! his jeans, socks, shoes. I haven't had such a good laugh in a long time!!! Poor Richard didn't think it was so funny. He had to strip & take a shower. We had to put all his "soiled" clothes in a garbage bag. Lucky for him that I had brought an extra pair of shoes for him! We finally had our breakfast (around 11:00 a.m.) The rest of the day turned out to be great. We left the park & headed for Galena. We found a nice campground (with a lot of other campers) & unhooked the car & set out to explore. We stopped at the information center & found out about a nice bike trail (we had our bikes on the rack on my car) it was a 6mile trail, which was really nice, but we were tired when we got back to the car. We went into the main town of Galena, where all the shops are & walked several blocks, but it was already almost 5:00 & most of the shops were closing, so we came back to our campground, had a nice supper & relaxed with a dvd. (this campsite has internet, but again no tv reception. Richard was a little sore from his tumble down the hill! I tried to add pictures to this post, but I'm not having any luck, I'll try tomorrow.