Petulant Child

I feel better today but yesterday I was grumpy.  And I acted like a brat.

After a good night’s sleep I can subscribe my bad mood to being tired.  Or maybe a reaction to altitude.  Or maybe I didn’t drink enough water that day.  Probably all 3.

But I spent the day frustrated, angry, and resentful.  I took it out on the Casita.

Why does everything take so long to hook up and take apart all the time?  Are we here to see Utah or fiddle with this damn RV?  I’m just as close to people parked in these $%*! campsites as I am to the people in my townhouse community.  At least I don’t have to watch my neighbors tramp to the toilet or showers. 

I was in quite the mood.

After a good night’s sleep I’m better.  I calmly worked my way through the disconnect and hookup today.  At least we’re here for 3 days.  Of course 3 days from now I’ll have to learn this all over again.  I did make one terrible mistake this morning– trailing the Casita up the wrong way on a loop-around at the Red Canyon campground.  That made 3 other Casitas terribly angry because I blocked their way for 20 minutes or so and once again I left Aunt Kass to clean up the mess – I can’t backup up the 200 yards on the curve that needed to be done to unclog the road.  Thank you Aunt Kass and newly dubbed Knight of the Casita Matt for fixing my mistake.  Good old Jean – the independent lioness of this Casita group shook her head, raised her fist in frustration and generally glared long and hard.  Oh well, my rookie mistake Jean – deal with it.  After that drama, the hookup went pretty well and I did trouble shoot getting the jammed hitch loosened.  Actually there’s only one thing to do when any of the three bars/hitches get jammed or the trailer needs to be leveled – you can crank the jack up or crank the jack down.  Really – how hard can that be?

So today – I’m off to Bryce.  I’m going to fill my eyes with hoodos and canyons and fantasy castles of rock spires pushing into today’s blue blue skies.  I’ve already apologized to Aunt Kass for yesterday’s grumpy mood, maybe I’ll apologize to the Casita later.  Maybe.

Wait – update on that plan.   After 30 minutes of driving around the campground coordinating a 3:30 hike meetup we are first going to stop and eat before we leave.  At the Casita.  Where we will turn on the propane to heat soup.  And then we’ll have to wash the dishes.  And then we’ll go?  Then we’ll go.