Time for Community Service

My first day of work – technically it is community service – went well.  I started with a bicycle tour of the campground, shopping-sized trash bag on the handle bars. In addition to the campground I rode the path to the beach and also out to Gooseberry Island.   After the ride it was breakfast and a shower.

The place was actually in pretty good shape and I had less than half a plastic grocery bag of trash to dispose of.

Melinda stopped by to show Lori the ropes in the women’s side of the restrooms and then I got busy on the men’s side.  The work is pretty simple and everything gets done in under an hour.  That gave us plenty of time to head to the shoreline of the campground – this is too rocky to really be called a beach.  For some reason we need to bring all kinds of ‘stuff’ with us when we head to the beach.  Chairs, a backpack, Lori brings a large drink container of water.  Lori also brought her Fitbit fitness tracker to the beach and when she got to the water remembered she had it on and handed it to me.  I fastened it to the shoulder strap of her backpack.  In the ensuing logistical nightmare of returning to the camper her Fitbit was lost!

What a nightmare it is to replace a Fitbit. Lori’s was a Charge 2 and she liked it very much.  Well Fitbit is moving to the Charge 3 and taking pre-orders.  This means it will not ship for four to six weeks. Well I’ll cover a lot of geography in that time period and the Fitbit would be sitting at the Good Sams mail forwarding service until our schedule settled out.  Since it takes about ten days for the service to forward mail a little planning is required. As we get more experience on the road I’m sure getting mail will become easiers.  Since we are local to the children for the next few weeks I would prefer to use one of their addresses as the local shipping address. 

Well none of this really mattered because Fitbit has gone insane.  Originally you could buy Fitbits in Small, Large, and XL (Why isn’t it small/medium/large?).  Now they only sell the trackers with small or large bands.  If you need an XL band (wrists greater than 8” circumference) you have to order that also and then swap out the bands when you get them.  What a deal – buy a tracker and two bands so you can throw one band away!  So a quick Google search (Sorry Bing lovers) finds the cheapest at “HeartRateMonitors.com”. The link to their site gets me to a ‘sold out’ page – great!!!!  So its back button to the Google search results and the link to Overstock.com finds me the exact Fitbit we lost just slightly more expensive than the HeartRateMonitor.com site was asking! .

So now its time supper and a fire and maybe tomorrow will be better!