NIGHTMARE - 6/23

After leaving Zion we finally arrived at our trailer at about 10:30 p.m. We were all very tired after a full day. We unlocked the trailer lock and went to unlock the second lock and the key would not go in. We tried for about 15 minutes, both keys. We were locked out of the trailer in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, with no phone service. We decided to drive as far as necessary to get phone service to call roadside assistance, not knowing if that would do any good or not considering where we were. We had to drive about 20 minutes to get any signal at all. We finally got through to roadside assistance and she said she would try to get someone out to us. The phone kept cutting out so we had to keep calling her back and her calls were not getting through to us. Finally we drove further up the mountain and got back ahold of her and she said she was not having any luck getting anyone out to us because everyone told her we would need a locksmith and the nearest was about an hour away. We told her we might try to get a motel, at least then we would have a land line to talk to her on. It was now after midnight. We drove about 50 minutes, the other direction, to a Best Western we had seen earlier and stood and rang the night buzzer for about 15 minutes. No one was going to answer so we decided our only option was to go back to the KOA and sleep in the truck until we could use their phone in the morning. We decided to park in front of the office instead of at the trailer so we did not disturb the neighbors and because we all needed to use the restroom! We of course are well out of cell phone range so we really do not know what is going on with RA. At about 3 a.m. I am still awake and notice headlights turning down another entrance towards our trailer. I walked out to investigate and there is a car parked in front of our trailer, I high tailed it to the truck and told Steve I thought the locksmith was there. HURRAY! We were finally in our trailer and going to bed at 3:30 a.m. We could not believe that roadside assistance could get someone there, from an hour away, after 3:00 a.m. We decided to sleep in on Tuesday! ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL!!!!!!!
(I shouldn't even mention that the KOA manager told us the next morning there was a courtesy phone in the laundry room, which was unlocked, at this KOA.)