Failure to Communicate

As you all know we left Emerald Cove on Friday to move to Yuma. We called Colorado River Adventures’ reservation phone number before we left to make a reservations at their Yuma Lakes RV Resort in Yuma, Arizona. They checked and said yes we could do that.

So Friday we moved to the desert near Quartzsite to spend a couple of days while waiting for Sunday when our reservation at Yuma Lakes would start.

CRA sends an email confirmation of your reservation but we didn’t think to look at in before moving. So, Saturday morning when I was doing my standard email processing I found this:

Do you see the problem? It looks like they made our new reservation at the park we just left instead of the one to which we are headed.

We were reluctant to continue driving south without knowing we’d have a place to park in this very popular RVing city. So, Sunday morning Dave called the reservation phone number again. It turns out they are only open “business hours”.

So, he dug out the book describing the parks. No park phone numbers listed.

CRA’s website has no phone numbers listed either!

Now what?

Ah, with our CRA membership we got exchange memberships in other park systems. So dig out one of their books and look up Yuma Lakes RV Resort.

Yes, a park phone number!

So, call the park. No, they don’t have a reservation for us. How long is our RV? They do have a spot available we can fit in. So they made a note to expect us and when we arrived the lady at the gate said, “Oh, I talked to you earlier.”

So, we are here. With only mild anxiety attacks in the meantime.

In the more two and a half years we been full-timing, we’ve only made five reservations. Two of those have been messed up. I liked it better when we just drove up to a park and claimed a spot. But that didn’t work so well in Yuma before so I doubt we would have risked it again, anyway.

So, we are here. Safely tucked into a spot. With intermittently flaky internet. I hope you all get to see this post today. 🙂

TTYL,

Linda