About a month after moving to the long term section events took place that forced us to leave. Kyle moved out. Jessie took a bus to be with her mother in Arizona. John, Johnny and I moved out of the park. These were extremely personal events and events that involved other people within the park so I will keep this out of my writings. Enough to say that "everything happens for a reason" and I though I regret the events I now understand some of their purpose.
So we needed to leave fair harbor but I was not yet ready to leave Perry. I had made some very good friends in the area. John was seeing a doctor that he liked. And frankly we didn't have the money to go very far.
I found a campground just down the road that was quiet and secluded. We called and reserved a spot and within a few days we were there.
Crossroads RV Park in Perry Georgia is a nice quiet little park. They have a playground and a pool. There were other full timers there with kids, so Johnny made friends very quickly. The price was the same as Fair Harbor and even though the campground didn't offer wifi I could get it free from a nearby hotel at our lot. So things were still very ok.
The other nice thing about this little campground is that it was much closer to the stores. I could walk to a convenience store in a matter of minutes and Walmart was only a few miles up the road.
We again settled in. We tried to stay a little more to ourselves in this campground so not to get into another bad situation. I became more protective of Johnny, again. Johnny couldn't ride his bike anymore anyway because he had ridden it so much at Fair Harbor that he had finally broken it.
Johnny went out to play with his new friends daily. They would play basketball, play on the playground, or play at the mini-golf course that was on the grounds as well.
After about 2 weeks in the campground I began to realize that it was not going to be long before my disability would not be enough to support us for much longer. I discussed it with John and Johnny both and we all decided that it was time to start seriously looking for a workamping position.
So I created a website as a resume for our family. I posted our interest on a workamper bulletin board and I began looking through ads.
Within 5 days we had 8 offers. We had decided that we wanted to start traveling west so that narrowed it down a bit. Of the offers westward our best offer came from a campground in Oklahoma. The offer was to work 13 - 15 hours a week cleaning cabins for free rent and hookups as well as laundry.
I called the campground and spoke with the owner and we decided that this was the opportunity we wanted to take. We waited until our time was up at the campground we were at and then pack up and headed down the road for Oklahoma.
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