Sun. 9/23/07 ~ Two Locksmiths and 4 1/2 Hours ...

Well it had to happen, it wouldn’t be a Moorhead vacation without something going wrong! We arrived at the Cherry Hill Park Campground in College Park, MD about 9:00 AM and I went in and registered. Bill followed me into the office a few minutes later. When we went out to drive to our site the door to the motor home would not open. It wasn’t locked and we had both sets of keys, the door handle mechanism just wouldn’t work. We called the Emergency Roadside Assistance again and they sent out two different locksmiths to try to open the door. About an hour after our call the first of the two locksmiths arrived. He tried to open it and talked to his supervisor several times with no luck. The second one arrived and after working for two hours or more he was able to get the small toll window next the driver side open and using the long handle of the washing brush reached across and opened the door from the inside. He removed the latching pin so we could operate the door and we got to our site and set up, finally, around 2:00 PM. Since the day was pretty much gone as far as sight seeing, Bill washed the motor home and the car and I went grocery shopping and reorganized the refrigerator and pantry. We had quite a bit of dirty laundry so after dinner we went to the campground laundry and got that all done. Our misadventures made us famous in the campground! Since we were parked in the registration lane in front of the office for over 4 hours quite a few people witnessed our situation. The whole time Bill was washing the motor home people who had seen us in front of the office came by to talk to him and hear the details of what happened. The most amazing part of the whole day was that Bill managed to completely keep his cool and didn’t seem to get upset at all.