Hookups

We seldom stay anywhere with hookups, so when we do we’re like kids in the candy store — let’s do laundry! Free electricity! Let’s charge everything! Even the toothbrushes! Fancy shower? Time for a haircut and shave. We usually get our money’s worth anyway.

Which is good because most RV parks, which are only places with hookups in these parts, aren’t very nice. The one we stopped at last night wasn’t such a bad place, a quarter mile walk to the shore and on a really nice beach, but that’s an exception rather than a rule. You can camp on the beach, but the sand was too soft for the bus. Other than the RV park there’s not much out here, few houses along the shore, a few more back by the river, but driving by it look like there were maybe five permanent residents. The rest were vacation rentals. I think that’ll be the ultimate consequence of tourism, eventually no one will live out in places like this, it’ll just be empty houses waiting for tourists who, eventually, stop coming.