pipe (apart from the fact that he was selling it on in his store) - and cared less
than that. Then in San Francisco the oriental staff running the camp who
called us 'Mr. and Mrs. England' and kept asking about the London fog. An
indication that staff became more talkative once we had been travelling for a
month and a half was that we found ourselves spending five to ten minutes
chatting when we checked in - as opposed to five to ten seconds.
Perhaps we got more relaxed and so appeared less threatening to
staff? Also we spent the second half of our holiday in areas of the country
where the peak season had begun - so staff were probably more practiced at
talking...certainly they were more friendly, and at one campsite the person
checking us in even told us all about a discount we could apply for that would
be valid at many campsites and signed us up there and then. Pity no one had
told us about it a month and a half earlier! We could have saved literally ten
dollars - maybe more.
Our favourite staff member was in the Florida Keys. She leaned over
conspiratorially and said "Are either of you over 21? Because you have to be
in order to check in". She then said 'Emma' (26) had a 'baby face' and looked
- To me she admitted I looked 23.... so why ask? Certainly she was
Emma's number one staff member - and gave us an 'employee of the month'
nomination form for our troubles. And then there was the staff member in the
Florida Keys who offered to marry us...but that’s another story (and one the
mother-in-law does not want to know!)
To be honest, we did not have much contact with our fellow campers either.
On most sites we did not have much in common with the rest of the 'RV set'.