Throughout Dusty's career, we've always joked that the Air Force is the Department of Defense's favorite child. This is evident in the fact that Air Force bases are always beautiful and nicely maintained, the housing and lodging is top notch, and their facilities are state of the art. Then we wound up living on Joint Base Andrews (which, despite the name, is still very much an Air Force Base.) You would think that the home of Air Force One would meet the high standards that we've noticed throughout our career, but interestingly enough, it fell drastically short. The commissary was small, run down, and often out of stock. The library...please don't even get me started on the library. The base pool closed a few years ago. Housing was little maintained and had the weirdest layout I've ever seen in a home. Just outside the base, crime rates are high and on more occasions that I can count, we'd hear gunshots amid the incessant buzz of traffic coming from 495 and the roar of crotch rockets speeding through the streets (usually just around bedtime for that soothing nighttime affect.) In short, our time there was soul-sucking. When we moved out of the house and into the RV, we stayed at JB Andrews Fam Camp for week one so we could easily clean the house for check out, attend a day camp in Calvert County, and spend a little more time with friends. In true Andrews style, the camp was a mess. Making reservations with Outdoor Rec was a bit of a nightmare. The lawn wasn't maintained, our water pump leaked so badly that we had to turn the main water line off for most of the day. Amenities were very outdated, and, unless you're a golfer, there was essentially nothing in the area to do.
We'll be staying here just over three weeks while Dusty finishes up work before beginning terminal leave. He has a 30-45 minute drive to Andrews, which is a bummer after living two minutes from work for the last year and a half. The kids and I have been catching up on school work, since, according to Jana, "we really haven't done any school for the last month because we've been trying to get moved into an RV." In our free time, we have been going down to observe the bay at different tide intervals throughout the day.
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