The Strangers

So I have all these fairly long entries in my little computer that I had saved when computer access was an issue. Now that I have computer access I have decided I will save those for the book I'm writing about my experience up here, and just recap everything that happened until now instead. The book is soooooo much better than this but I don't have time to write novel length entries about everything that happens up here (that's what the book is for duh).

The pumps at the nearest gas station . . .

First off, the first night up here was a nightmare. I was convinced that the setting was straight out of the The Strangers movie and that someone was going to torture and kill me before my first day of work. Mind you this was all after a very lovely dinner with my supervisor and her husband at her beautiful house in South Thomaston, so I was as ill prepared as could be for such a situation. The camper I'm staying in was a complete wreck. Granted it was not completely obvious from first glance, but it had definitely been sitting much too long. There were days worth of cleaning to do to remove the mouse poop and mold off every surface of the rig. That's not the worst part though.


All my stuff I had brought up was now in this overwhelmingly dirty camper, so of course I at least had to clean a small space in the thing so that I could unpack some of the camping essentials. You know, things like soap, paper towels, flashlights...

What do you know, I'm left in the pouring rain, surrounded by mud and darkness. The lights went out and it was about 9:30 at night in a completely empty campground. And it's just my luck that I hadn't quite yet gotten to unpacking my flashlights.

Long story short, I got a hold of the campground owner who set me up in one of the cabins. That's when I realized how closely the situation resembled the movie, about the same time that I realized my phone was missing. How could I have not been convinced someone was messing with me?

Eventually after much searching and researching the same areas, I found it and curled up into the foreign bed with all the lights on. I dozed in and out of sleep until it was time to leave the cabin in the same condition I found it in, and dig through my stuff in the camper to find clothes for work and head on my way.