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This weekend we will be in Delaware for Site Selection Day at Port Delmarva, year-round home of our dinky 34-foot CoachMen travel travel that never travels but just stays right there on the postage-stamp-size lot assigned for us to use.
Site Selection Day happens because each year some lots are given up by former users who move away, lose interest, change parks, or pass away (R.I.P.) The sites that become available that way are up for grabs, but only via an orderly procedure based on seniority.
Even though the trailer sites are all approximately the same size, & even though the entire park is so small that none of the sites are remote or inconvenient, certain sites are more to be desired than the rest -- mainly the 1s close to the water or with nice views of the surrounding land & water instead of views of a bunch of other trailers.
The Chief Of Staff & I are way, way down on the seniority list, so chances are our dinky trailer will stay right where it is again this year. The Chief Of Staff's sister already has a prime site right on the circle with a wonderful view of Rehoboth Bay. Our nephew, however (son of The Chief Of Staff's sister), is up there high enough on the seniority list that there is a chance he'll be able to switch sites. So the whole bunch of us will be on the edges of our chairs as the names & available site numbers are called. And The Chief Of Staff & her sister will have their heads together -- figuratively if not literally -- to zero in on the choicest remaining open sites as the process unfolds.
Once Site Selection is all settled, then the Trailer Moving Committee fires up the park tractor & the actual DoSaDo & the physical Right & Left Grand of trailers on the move gets underway. Pretty soon every rig is where it's supposed to be & the people with new lot assignments can get busy leveling & blocking their box trailers & AirStreams for another fun season at The Port.
Site Selection Day happens because each year some lots are given up by former users who move away, lose interest, change parks, or pass away (R.I.P.) The sites that become available that way are up for grabs, but only via an orderly procedure based on seniority.
Even though the trailer sites are all approximately the same size, & even though the entire park is so small that none of the sites are remote or inconvenient, certain sites are more to be desired than the rest -- mainly the 1s close to the water or with nice views of the surrounding land & water instead of views of a bunch of other trailers.
The Chief Of Staff & I are way, way down on the seniority list, so chances are our dinky trailer will stay right where it is again this year. The Chief Of Staff's sister already has a prime site right on the circle with a wonderful view of Rehoboth Bay. Our nephew, however (son of The Chief Of Staff's sister), is up there high enough on the seniority list that there is a chance he'll be able to switch sites. So the whole bunch of us will be on the edges of our chairs as the names & available site numbers are called. And The Chief Of Staff & her sister will have their heads together -- figuratively if not literally -- to zero in on the choicest remaining open sites as the process unfolds.
Once Site Selection is all settled, then the Trailer Moving Committee fires up the park tractor & the actual DoSaDo & the physical Right & Left Grand of trailers on the move gets underway. Pretty soon every rig is where it's supposed to be & the people with new lot assignments can get busy leveling & blocking their box trailers & AirStreams for another fun season at The Port.
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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