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I’ve Been Trapped in a Hotel For 4 Days
What I’ve learned about myself in Room 328
My friend and I left Guatemala on Thursday May 9th to pick up an RV on Saturday the 11th in Maryland, USA and drive it across to California. It’s now Tuesday the 15th and we’re still in Maryland.
In a hotel. In Frederick. Waiting.
What was supposed to be a 10 day leisure trip just might be a 4 day ‘let’s get this shit done’ trip. Our return flights to Guatemala are on the 20th of May. It will be tight, if we make it at all.
The waiting game
We got the call on Saturday that the RV was going to the shop on Monday. On Monday we got the call it may not be ready until Thursday or, quite possibly Friday. If the latter is the case, we’re fucked and we’ll be rebooking flights home.
On the flip side of that, if we can’t leave until Friday and have to rebook flights, at least we won’t be so rushed to get across the country.
So now we wait. In a hotel in Frederick, Maryland.
My dream come true.
When my friend invited me to go on this trip with him I jumped at the offer. It’s always been my dream to travel across the country in an RV. My country, Canada, not the USA, but I wasn’t going to turn it down because it was…
