Monday, July 22, 2019 – Travel Day To Tri-County Trails Campground

Since we didn't have to leave early, I didn't bother with the alarm, and ended up sleeping until 8:30, mainly because I didn't sleep well during the night. Got up and started packing up, and it seemed to take forever this morning for some reason. I wasted quite a bit of time trying to find a vet on the way that was a member of the Global Vet Link system, a new system of getting a 6-month horse passport which I used to get from the state of Tennessee. Now we have to find a vet and get it through them. I spoke to two difference animal clinics that were on the way, one couldn't take us today, but seemed to understand what I was looking for once I explained it in detail, and another that had no clue what I was talking about, and wasn't the least bit interested in finding out about it. How can these people be a member of a network that others rely on, and not have the first idea how to do what the network claims they can do?? Anyway, I'm just going to have to work out another way of getting them in the next few weeks, since all my efforts came to nothing. Of course, that made me late for everything else, and we didn't get away from camp until well past 12:30, with a heavy downpour slowing us down even further. Finally said our good-byes to Phyllis and Ted and headed up the road. Most of it was uneventful, until the very end when my GPS and a low clearance bridge got us all screwed up and we wasted nearly half an hour trying to get there. Finally did, and then the excitement began. We walked around with Ellen, the trailmaster (mistress?) and she showed us where president Mike (who was delayed because of a doctor's appointment he'd forgotten about) wanted us to park. We chatted for a while, and then she left us to it. I started out trying to back up into the space, simple enough, but the ground was so soft I started sliding. Since we were backing uphill, we decided that wasn't going to work, so we circled around so we could cross the lawn going downhill into the spot, and ended up getting stuck there, too. President Jim arrived just then, and he hooked up his 4-wheel drive pickup to me, but all he managed to do was tear up four nice little holes in the ground to match the two I had already made. Finally we called Ellen again (who only lives around the corner) and she came down, contacted her son, a farmer, and told us he was bringing one of his big tractors down. He arrived in short order on a massive tractor, with double back wheels about 8 feet tall, hooked us up and managed to pull us out pretty easily. He stayed around until we got our tires up on a couple of levelers, and then went on his way. So grateful for the help!! They've had so much rain here, too, that the ground was pretty soft everywhere, hope we don't have trouble getting out again! The forecast is for sunny skies all week, though, so hopefully we'll be all right. By this time it was almost 7:00, so we left the rest of the setting up until tomorrow. With the horses safe on a highline, which I had put up while waiting for the tractor, we settled down for the evening, to MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES, thank goodness!!

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