Getting to know our Campers

The next morning I woke up 4mins before my alarm clock could go off. I felt fresh and good as new. After a quick check up call with Mum, I went down for breakfast. In the US, breakfast is just as any other meal of the day: full of unhealthy fat and high calories. The menu contained next to eggs with potatoes, burgers and even steak. Sure... Why not?!
Luckily, I've found a somehow manageable breakfast option: Avocado toast. But they did not lie when they wrote on the menu "a whole avocado on one toast". It was delicious, though.
After we ate all our breakfast, we checked out of the hotel, got picked up again by the black leathered bus and drove to the El Monte/Road Bear station in Henderson. There, we picked up 4 of our 6 campers for the week. We had to sign loads of papers and I'm sure there will be a new washing machine waiting for me at home. Dana, Ann-Christin and I got a 28" Road Bear (which is higher in quality than El Monte). It was huge. And I would drive it first, because I slept and felt the best. I didn't feel nervous at all...!?
After showing us around the camper, the employee of Road Bear handed me the keys and said" Let's go".
Sure. But we had to wait for everyone else to get ready first. Whilst waiting, we melted in the heat of the Nevada sun. It was only 10am, but we already had about 32°C. That would be a very hot week for me. But at least the heat was dry and therefore easy to breath in (different to the Sri Lankan aquarium heat). When everyone was finally ready, we started our Camper trip directly with creating a huge traffic jam on the parking lot. It took ages until everyone was lined up to get going. But at least all this waiting muffled my nervousness down to a minimum and it took only around 5min until I felt rather comfortable driving this huge RV.
Our next stop wasn't far away because we had to buy everything for the next week. It was great because we could get a look at the famous Walmart. It was bad because we spend the next two hours running around the aisles trying to find the things on Nicolas list. 5 carts, 1.023 items and 1.126$ later, we were done and could finally make our way to our first stop: Williams.
However, a Camper trip wouldn't be a Camper trip if something wouldn't go wrong traffic-wise. We had driven about 20mins when we had to stop on the highway. Stopping and going for half an hour, we were wondering what was going on. When the cars all started turning and driving back like ghost drivers, we came to the conclusion that we had to look for another route to Williams. Turns out there was a huge crash with 2 deaths, 2 injured people and loads of emergency staff. I don't want to sound insensitive, but I was very relieved that we didn't get involved in this crash happening right in front of us. When I had to make a 360° turn, I was very pleased being able to do it without any problems. After these shenanigans, I drove the next 4hrs to our first campground. Whoever says that the streets in the US are great: You are just as insane as these horrible streets. I have really not expected so many goddamn potholes in this country. Holy sugar!
But we made it, finally, and arrived at a pretty sobering campground that looked more like a parking lot than camping. I expected more green, nature and breathtaking scenery around us, but all we got was the city of Williams. Because of the detour and the shopping, we've arrived way later than planned, so that we just walked over to our dinner location: the Grand Canyon Brewery. I've got to admit, that I was totally done with the day, being tired af and my social battery was on its limits, too. But the pizza I ordered was actually pretty good (although the spinach was very rare for a spinach pizza), so that at least my tummy was happy. And as Dana, Ann-Christin and I decided that I could sleep on the master bed the first two nights, my sleepy body was happy as well.Okumaya devam et