After weeks of being home, doing doctors’ appointments, cleaning house, and generally performing the mundane duties of ordinary life, we finally packed up the RV to take a weekend trip to nearby Circle E Guest Ranch near Winchester, TN. Though it’s only about 40 miles or so away from where we live, and are on the same plateau (Cumberland) that we are, we had never been here before, though we took a short drive up here last Friday after meeting some friends in Monteagle (and after an appearance on a local TV show), just to check it out. We had read somewhere that the road here was twisty and windy, but compared to what Hubby and I are used to, it was easy. Yes, a fairly steep climb, but a two-lane state highway with a full extra shoulder all paved, so no problem. We headed out by 10:30, and arrived in little more than an hour. We checked in at the office, which took an extraordinarily long time, as every time the woman tried to put in my information, it was deleted or it wouldn’t take my payment. It took four tries before she finally had to jury-rig it in order to make it work. They didn’t even have a record of my deposit, which I had made weeks ago! Finally, we moved across the street to the secondary campground (for which we were grateful, to stay away from the madding crowd), and backing in was a challenge because the sites are at a 90 degree angle, and there were a number of trees in the way, but with Hubby’s excellent guidance we managed to get in with only a few angle changes. Once we got in the site, we went back to put the horses in their assigned stalls, only to discover that someone was already in both of them! I don’t understand how people can be so rude, simply taking stalls without checking in first, but there we were, wondering what to do next! I was tempted to just move them out to some other empty stall, but I don’t really like to handle other people’s horses, nor matter how rude and inconsiderate they might be, and when I called the office, they had not clue (surprise, surprise) whose horses they might be, and we ended up having to put ours in a single large stall on the back side of the outside of the barn, instead of inside in two stalls. Whatever, I guess having the two of them together is probably better anyway, but, seriously, having to be forced to make lemonade out of the lemons we were handed is only an indication of our character, not theirs. Anyway, we got them settled in, then went back to the RV and finished setting that up, before heading back over to the dining hall to see where our vendor spot was. Turned out we could have a place on the porch, which meant we didn’t need to set up our little gazebo tent, which was just as well because the forecast called for a lot of rain this weekend (naturally, we haven’t had a drop since we got home, now it’s a 50-70% chance!), and I was a bit afraid the wind from any storms would blow it away. We got set up, and hung around for a while before heading back to camp to put up the satellite dish and settle in for the night. Got caught in a real downpour, unfortunately, but once that ended, we had some pretty skies as the evening wore on. Looking forward to checking out the trails tomorrow!
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