Look Up

A wee bit of trimming by the staff at Thousand Islands KOA.

Although the campground provides sites that are big rig friendly, well, let’s just say that this particular site was very, very tight.

Lorraine was spotting me into the site and she was focused on getting the Castaway cleared left and right. The site had a landscaped patio area with some large rocks on the driver’s right and a number of trees on the driver’s left. There was very little room to swing especially for a pull-through site.

I was focused on Lorraine. She was focused on clearing the sides and back. Neither one of us thought to look up.

The trees. One in particular. We are 12 feet 10 inches at ride height. Likely a touch taller than the lowest branch of this one tree.

I raised it with the roofline at the front of the coach although, once we had levelled the Castaway, the lowest branch was clear by a small margin.

Fortunately there was no damage to the body of the coach.

But there was no way we could pull out at ride height. The branch would have had its way with our various antennas and air conditioning units.

On departure day, two young men came out to our site and dealt with the offending branch. They were very careful and brought the branch down without incident.

Getting out of the site was also challenging although I am beginning to get better at maneuvering this 40-foot coach.

Lesson learned.

Always look up.