At Least We Didn't Do It

From Donna's and my point of view, the Fredericksburg, VA area is one of the highest areas to get rear-ended. Last year when we were here we saw a rear-end collision almost every day that we were out in rush hour traffic.  Our Jetta got popped twice while we lived here during the 2000s.  This little dent occurred while Purvis Ford was test driving the truck after service and a front-end alignment.  It was hit by a full-sized Chevrolet truck that took the brunt of the accident.  That doesn't surprise me as they've built a lot of crush zones in the front of vehicles.  No one was hurt.  We'll know more after it's put on the frame rack, and they've checked for hidden damage.  Hopefully, we can meet our planned schedule.  Oh, they haven't found the source of raw diesel exhaust into the cab of the truck during the diesel exhaust cleaning process, either.  Maybe the rear-end hit fixed it?

Over the last week we've had a great time in High Point, NC with all the dinners out and the meal at Craig & Donna's.  (And I still had weight watchers points left...if you include the activity points.) We're beginning to get visits in here at the Fredericksburg area.  We've met up with Beth & Frank, and had lunch with Beth & her mother-in-law, Carol (plus seeing the movie "God's Not Dead").  And meals at the normal places:  Red Robbin & Cracker Barrel.  As of today, Donna's gotten in two days of work (volunteering) at the local hospital, too.

Since I'm spending my time hanging out at the local KOA while the truck gets repaired, I get to see all the work their doing to it.  The Fredericksburg, VA KOA is an expensive campground down a small country road that Stonewall Jackson's ambulance carried him along to the hospital after losing his arm during the Civil War's Wilderness campaign.  It's a nice campground, and the owners continue to poor money and sweat effort into it.  We're the unusual customers in that we want access to satellite TV, and we don't want to be under trees, anyway. The roof is hard enough to keep clean, so I don't need any additional help getting it dirty.  But this campground is beginning to cater to people like us.  They've added two high-end sites out in the open with patios and fire rings and two under the trees.  At least three will fit the larger class A motor homes with tows.  There's probably three or four other pull-through sites that fit our needs, and we're usually in one of those.  Our new Droid Razor Maxx smartphone seems to like the campground's WiFi, but Verizon signals are too weak for data plus we still drop a lot of phone calls.  Our 5510L MiFi can get us a one bar signal of 4G, so that's working (no drops while writing this post).  So for us, things are getting better at this KOA.

Well, that's it for this week.  Later, David