Week two was spent in Jamesville, NC with my parents. This one pony town is located between Plymouth, NC and Williamston, NC. My parents were also very generous in sharing their driveway with us. This week we only popped the breaker twice! We’re getting good at this whole electricity thing huh? We spent a bunch of time inside this week since it was scorching and were able to relax a bit.
July 4th came during this week and we ventured down to the OBX to hang out with my sister, Emilie. Dave got a chance to go hang gliding, while the rest of us hung out at the beach. It was a pretty good day until Dave got heat exhaustion near the end of the day. Thankfully he was able to get going enough to make it to the car to head home.
This was a dangerously hot week for our family. Dave loves working on projects to keep him busy. Luckily, my dad needed his mower to be fixed! My dad and Dave had the mower high in the air as they tried to distinguish what the problem was and my dad ended up passing out. He had been careful to drink plenty of water, but had forgotten to eat. No food + 102 degree temps = a passed out pops. Thankfully he recouped and eventually the mower was fixed as well!
Family time was had for the rest of the week. The Bounder did well, as expected. It was doubly hot inside of it, which had its own, unique draw backs. I don’t know if you guys know this, but when one has to go to the bathroom in an RV the deposit goes straight into a holding tank. Duh! Right? Yeah. Well, when an RV is full of you-know-what, and it’s above 102 degrees outside, things tend to... become obvious. If you catch my “sniff” (pun intended). So, we kept deodorizing that until it could no longer be deodorized.
Dave finished up some odds and ends on the Bounder that he had started in Falkland, while I tried not to even be outside. All in all, it was a pretty relaxing week with some bumps along the way.
We were able to attend church at Poplar Chapel Church of Christ where I grew up attending, on Sunday July 8th. It was really awesome to get to see everyone and catch up a bit. After lunch we attempted to leave to head to our next destination. This plan was tricky, so stay with me. We packed up EVERYTHING and stuffed it all in our two cars. Jamesville was the end of our summer rendezvous with the Bounder, so we took a bunch of things with us. We left the RV in my parents yard and headed for the OBX. Dave’s parents live there and after week 3 of being kind of homeless, we knew we would be going straight there. So, we went to the OBX to drop off Dave’s car and a few things. After that, we headed North to RICHMOND, VA!!!
Yeah, right. It wasn’t that easy. Of course.
We always have to leave in a dramatic way. Mostly, we’ve moved on to our next destination accompanied by buckets and boat loads and tons of rain. This time my body decided it was too hot to function. That’s right, dehydration. On the way to the OBX, I suddenly realized I had tunnel vision. Soon after the tunnel vision, my head started pounding. This pounding was accompanied by nausea and feelings of hot flashes. By the way, I was driving. Yep. Needless to say, we barely made it to Dave’s parents without me vomiting and we stayed the night there. We can’t just have a boring, normal departure. There at least has to be a tornado, hail or sickness.
Next on the agenda, Richmond! Because we did finally get there!
If you missed the excitement of our first week, we've got you covered ;) Part 1
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