We were leaving Abita Springs this morning after being here for a week and we had an almost 5 hour drive ahead of us to get to Many in north west Louisiana so we got up quite early. Everything went smoothly with the packing up, even the hitching up of the trailer was easy, and then we were ready to go. I put the address in Nell, Mike turned Serenas key, and click, click, click. Bugger, Serena had a flat battery even after starting first thing this morning. We have a battery charger thing with jumper cables on it that mike set about attaching to Serena but that battery was flat too. At this point I got my book and left him to it, it’s easier than trying to help. After about half an hour I heard Serena roar to life, Mike had used the battery on the trailer to jump-start her, and off we went.
Even though we had a long drive we decided to stop at a Walmart and get a new battery put on Serena. The guys there were really helpful and swapped out the battery in no time flat, and I think Serena is happy to have a new lease on life as she hasn’t complained all day.
The rest of the drive was uneventful, just lots of freeway and lots of water, at least till we turned and started heading north, then the terrain changed and we saw hardly any water and it was much less flat. We finally got tot he park in Many well after 3 o’clock to discover that there was no one at the office to check us in. A notice on the door said to go find a space and pay the next day, so that’s what we did. Since we were only staying two nights we had decided not to unhitch the trailer so we needed a space that was long enough for both it and the truck. We eventually found one after driving around the park half a dozen times, the only trouble was the space was definitely on a grade and try as we might, even with the one side of the trailer up on three blocks, we couldn’t get her level. In the end we just got her as level as possible and left it at that; we are so unlevel we’ll probably wake up in the morning all scrunched up against the window at our feet.




The parking of the trailer was slightly stressful to say the least, there was yelling and some tears and maybe a swear word or two. To make matters worse the park is awful with a capital A. There seem to be a lot of permanent trailers here that don’t look fit for habitation. We took a walk around this evening and it seems to be really run down. We don’t have TV here so we asked a maintenance guy where the lodge was and he showed us but then informed us that it’s never open, great. He also told us that there would be no one here till Monday either so I’m not sure how we’ll pay if the office isn’t open when we leave. We didn’t spend too long walking around, we just headed back to the trailer and locked the door. Mike spent the evening watching movies and I have been reading. He’s talking about leaving tomorrow as he is so disappointed with this place, can’t say I blame him.

Mike: Only the 2nd bad park in a year and a half, not bad!