{"id":330,"date":"2025-07-05T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/borrowed-hose-koa-pay-it-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:15:00","slug":"borrowed-hose-koa-pay-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/borrowed-hose-koa-pay-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed Hose at the KOA. Pay It Forward."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our fresh water hose split outside Albuquerque at dusk\u2014the kind of small disaster that feels biblical when you are tired and thirsty. I was wrestling with a replacement I bought at an auto parts store when the man in site 42 walked over with a better hose and the words I needed: use mine tonight, buy your own tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about London decades ago, a stranger handing me an umbrella at a bus stop. Pay it forward, she said. I have left coolers of ice, extra leveling blocks, and once a whole lasagna for a family whose generator died in a heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>RV travel is not solo travel unless you choose loneliness. The community at a good campground is a dinner party with extension cords.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an extra hose. Help the person struggling with their awning. You will be them someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A campground kindness that fixed my rig and my travel theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}