Durango Here We Are

We finally arrived at Durango and will be getting ready for our workamping duties in a few days. They normally have you wait four or five days after arriving to get use to the climate and altitude.

We've been informed that I will be working on the outside detail and will be mowing grass and picking up trash and painting picnic tables. Jerry will be working in the office taking reservations, checking guests in and keeping the small store clean.

They have a new computer program used to take reservations and assign sites to guests. Everyone will be required to take a training program on it's use.

Not long after we got here Jerry began to have problems with her lungs and feeling faint and dizzy. I took her to the hospital and after a long series of test they found blood clots in both of her lungs. They gave her some medication and also ordered her to be on oxygen 24/7 for about two weeks. She wasn't able to attend the training classes so they gave her a DVD with the program on it so she could learn the program. After about two weeks she was better and wanted to take the training session.

When she went to the office to get the training, the woman that we thought was our friend, Betty would move in front of Jerry so she couldn't see the computer. This action went on for several days and no matter what Jerry tried to do Betty would do everything she could to make sure she couldn't get next to the computer. Betty made it a point to let the manager and assistant manager know that Jerry was not being able to do the job.

On what was to be our first day at work, the manager Bob, said he wanted to talk to us. We went into his office and also present was Kathy the assistant manager. Bob said "things are not going to work out, Jerry doesn't want to learn the job". We tried to tell them that she had been working with the program DVD and had learned how to work the program. He said "No you have to leave by tomorrow morning". I ask if we could pay for the site and stay since Jerry had a couple of doctor appointments later in the week. He said "No I need that site tomorrow, you'll have to leave".

That afternoon I went to Don and Betty and told them what had happened and also told them I wasn't happy with what Betty had done. I thought they were our friends but it seems that they had turned on us and had gotten real close to Kathy the assistant manager. I' m sure that they went to the manager Bob cause he came down to our site banged on the door and told me we had to be out within the hour.

No matter how much we tried to talk to Bob to explain the situation, he would not listen. He is a Viet Nam vet and I believe he has a bad case of PTSD. He can be your best friend one minute and the next he can be your worse night mare. Last year he threw another workamper out who had been told he had cancer. He wanted to stay a couple of days longer to get his 5ver ready. Bob told him "No you have to be out by noon".

We left and went to another RV Park and stayed for a couple of weeks to let Jerry get her doctor appointments. We also took some sight seeing trips with our good friends Lee and Carma. I was chatting with a friend on the Internet and she told me they needed workampers at the RV Park she was at in Texas and told me to send an email to the owner. A few days later I got an email from the park owner in Texas tell us to come on and work for her. YEA!!!.

We're now on our way to the Texas Hill Country to workamp there this summer. Good things can happen.