Getting Packages

When we are stopped at one spot for a little while, it is nice because we can get packages delivered!

We had found, when we were here in the '20-'21 season, that sometimes packages went to the wrong house. This resort is made up of concentric "circles" of streets (they are really decagons -- 10 sided). The delivery guys sometimes end up on the parallel street to the one they are looking for and deliver to 807 Merlin or 807 Navaho rather than 807 Douglas. The signs on the lots usually just have the house number and owner's names, but sometimes a renter is staying on a lot so the name on the sign is not the name of the resident.

Here's a satellite view of our park (with Carl's location marked on my screen capture from Google Maps!)

We decided to create a place at our lot where packages should be delivered -- a nice, waterproof box.

Regardless of our provision of a nice place for packages, we got one delivered by FedEx on Friday evening (after 7pm) and they put it by the door of the shed (near the back of our lot). I guess their default is to put a package near a "door" and that's the door they chose rather than the door of the motorhome. Thankfully, when we got back from the Friday night dance, we came through the back easement area between houses and walked right by the shed - otherwise, I don't think we'd have seen the package until morning, and it poured rain overnight which would not have been great for the package!

Because I had put a satellite-view map of the resort in this post, I thought it was interesting that one of the residents recently posted an early aerial-type photo of the park on Facebook:

The west side of the park was developed first -- in the 1970s. At that time, it was only an RV park, no park models - when we enlarge it, we can see a number of Airstreams and other trailers parked there. The west pool is there (it was rebuilt last year so now it has a different shape), and a large building in the center of the park. It is a round building like what is currently there that houses the ballroom, bistro, post office, activities office -- but we're pretty sure that what exists now is a different structure than what is shown in the picture. Where our lot is (on the east side, closest edge in the picture), it looks like there may have been hay fields, or some sort of crop fields, as seen in the foreground of the picture.

It would be interesting to look back at the history of the property!