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11/7/2004

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7 November ’04, Sunday. As we walked from the grocery store in Fethiye, we felt our first rain drops in quite sometime. That’s OK, as it really is quite dry here now and we are long past the rainy season for the area. We have been expecting it sooner than later. The only thing that we haven’t been expecting was the red light that all of a sudden started flashing at me from the dashboard. It showed that we were overheating…not good. We headed over to the gas station and checked our radiator water, and sure enough, we were low. Now as it started to pour down heavily, and was getting dark, we really were getting a little depressed. We had to find the campground also, and in the dark, it wasn’t going to be fun. We had been given directions at the grocery store, but we were quite a ways out and it was really raining heavy now… Flooding of the streets, cars in the ditch, trucks and buses slipping their wheels going up hill, and us over heating…I didn’t like it one bit. Yep, I might have been a little bitchy, I admit it, and guess who was close enough to receive it all…sorry honey… Well, we did finally get to the area and ran into Ralph and Susan again. They hadn’t been able to find a campground that was open yet, so together we went looking (looking hell, I couldn’t see through the rain). Finally, after getting in and out of the van a number of times, we are soaking wet and we decide that we are going to just park in one of these “closed campgrounds” as long as we can find a toilet we can use. As luck would have it, we did find such a place, and we were also able to hook up to electricity as well…what a find, although we were trespassing. Now, first thing this morning we were able to get out and see just exactly what we had found. Not too bad, but how can we improve on it??? As we were looking this whole thing over, a man seemed to come out of no where and just walked around us kind of checking us out. Pretty soon there were a few men across the street that you could just tell were talking about us, and then a car with a man and his wife pulled up. The first thing they did was go over to the electrical cord and pull it out of the wall. The lady then picked up my electrical cord and started to wind it up and walking away with it. Well, time to go into action…. Keep cool and “MAKE FRIENDS !!!”… I smiled, I spoke softly, and they couldn’t understand a word of what I had to say… But wait, they have someone else coming… He’s a big young man and maybe… Thank You Lord, he speaks some English. We were able to convey our dilemma. We weren’t looking to stick anyone for anything, but we just wanted to find a place to sleep during this rainstorm and beyond if possible. Well, we are here for a second night and maybe even more. Things are good except the rain comes and goes, and I still haven’t had a chance to look at the water problem in the van. Tomorrow…more of this

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