My plans for the spring/summer/fall were pretty much set when I left the RGV for Utah. Or so I thought. The job in Utah went as planned but while I was there I started calling around Salem Oregon for monthly sites. I was going to try working for Amazon as a regular temp in Salem until August, then quit 30 days prior to my Amazon CamperForce assignment in Troutdale Oregon to finish up the year there.

Well, it seems that with the pandemic, many RV parks are filling up with fulltime residents. In very old fashioned terms, monthly sites are harder to find than hen’s teeth 🙂 Just as I was ready to give up on Amazon for the summer, I got a text from a temp agency that I’d previously worked with. They were starting a new program for warehouse jobs with a company in Minnesota. Not only was the pay higher than Amazon but this company also picked up the entire campsite fee, non-taxable. Overall, much better than Amazon.

So, I did some new trip planning and off to Minnesota I went. I even had a few days to stop over in Grand Forks ND and visit my favorite Chinese buffet there while camping at the nearby Air Force Base. I did my orientation and drug testing right there in Grand Forks, then left the next morning for Thief River Falls. And that’s where I almost ran out of options.

They’d known for awhile the size and power requirements of my RV. I arrived at assigned campground, found the reservation tag on my site and just started shaking my head. It was a 50 amp full hookup site but would be fairly challenging backing in to since the sites were crowded so closely together. I commenced my maneuvering and quickly discovered that the site was just too short for my 5th wheel, by 3 or 4 feet. Getting out of the site when the neighboring sites were occupied would’ve been impossible.

I called the temp agency (since the camp host was still nowhere to be found) and they offered another site elsewhere in the same campground. That site was certainly long enough for me but had no water or sewer. The temp agency said they would deliver water and a pump-out truck twice a week. While not ideal, I could live with that. Unfortunately, the electric service was only 30 amp. With daytime temps frequently in the 90s, the inside of the RV would’ve been unbearable with only 1 AC at a time running.

Already thinking about where else I could spend the summer, I called the temp agency again and explained the predicament. To my surprise, they had 2 other options for me. I quickly unhitched and checked out the other 2 places. I settled on a place only a few miles away and got settled in. The TV reception isn’t great but I have my full hookups and a quiet park.

Now, I just have to decide how long I’m going to stay here and whether or not I’ll work for Amazon this year. Just finished my first week of training so that decision will certainly wait for a month or 2.