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Farm_Camp
Explorer
Jun 29, 2013

First hour camping. Did my first good deed. ;-)

Pulled the camper from the dealer straight to a local CG today.

Here I am a total noob... Trying to get everything set up. And. Naturally up rolls a thunder storm. Winds gusting. We're trying to figure out how to keep the kids entertained for a few while DW and I get our berrings.

Then a knock on our door. Lady camped next to us. Says hi and explains that her DH is away from camp with the storm commin and she doesn't know how to retract her awning. Wants to know if I can help.

Long story short. I helped and with a little cell phone assistance from her DH we got the awning retracted. The storm fizzled. But I was still glad I was able to help. ;)

Just a funny story from my first hour of camping ;-). I figured she saw US sorta fumbling along. Lol. I'll hope for a few good karma points.

Kids are sleeping in their bunks. I'm bushed. Night all.

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  • Excellent!

    We were on our property doing dry runs of setting up, including the awning. We couldn't firgure it out to save our lives. Some guy was driving down our street, and he saw us trying our darndestt o figure it out. He stopped and offered help us. He said he remembers his first time withthe awning, and had no help.

    So, these friendly RVers are EVERYWHERE! Not just campgrounds.
  • Great Job. Now you also have more awning experience. I wouldn't be able to do ours without DH either. Too big, too heavy -- I do know how to lower the front of it down though, which would help in a pinch.