We arrived a little after one o'clock in the RV park where we'll spend the winter.
We were supposed to spend the winter in Apache Junction but that changed just before we flew to Tampa for the Buffett concert. I was reading the Workamper.com job listings and I saw one that sounded good to me. We had decided that we wouldn't work this winter but this ad sounded so good I just had to call. We were hired within an hour of calling.
The job listed was for the Quail Run RV Resort in the activities department. We'll work on a team of four couples and we'll be known as the White team. There are two other teams, the Red and the Blue. Bob and I will work three days on and six off. Our hours are 9 to 3 with an hour for lunch. On days we don't have anything to do we'll be told to go home. Our duties include attending all the park functions, setting up for activities such as bingo, doing the pancake breakfasts if our shift falls on that particular day, decorating for the holidays and whatever else comes along.
After getting the rig set up as far as electric, sewer and water are concerned we made our way to the main office to meet with Jeannie the park manager. We filled out some paperwork for her and then followed her to the Oasis, where the activities office is situated. We were introduced to Bruce and Deann the Activities Directors. They gave us a tour of the park and explained what we'll be doing.
We don't have to pay for our RV site, electricity, water, cable or the telephone land line we are required to have, we'll take it in trade for the hours we work.
Back at the house we finished setting up for a few hours. We don't report for work until Monday so we have the next five days to make it home again and learn the lay of the land.
We had no sooner gotten out of the truck and our neighbors came over to meet us. The park is barely half full right now as the RV'ers haven't really started arriving as yet. On our street out of eleven spaces there are only five filled, including us.
We are no longer snowbirds. In Arizona we are known as winter residents.
This park is very well kept, very clean and very pretty. I'll get pictures up in a day or two.
Well, we have arrived, we're happy to be here as it is in the 80's. We think this is going to a good experience.
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