May 23, 2016 Great travels

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Ray

Great travels in spite of motorhome problems.  We definitely are making great headway on our trip to California and I’m enjoying the time with Virena.  We have made it to Ft. Stockton, Texas with is over 1600 miles and about 1000 to go.  We are both ready for a couple of days of R&R.

Interesting issues with RV that will need to be addressed sooner rather that later.

  • fresh water drain valve has a slow leak will need to replace the valve, temporarily just letting the valve leak will fix when we stop for a couple of nights
  • alternator not charging, will need to address this when in California
  • grey tank valve leaking will address this when we stop some place for an extra day or so.
  • jacks would not go down last night, disassembled unit and sprayed main switch on controller with contact cleaner and now is working, one item off of the list.
  • One of the day/night blinds need to be re-strung and will address this when we are stopped someplace

Just on a more personal note, Polly is doing fine and is enjoying seeing all the new sites.

We have had rain almost everyday, the good news is most of it has been at night.  tonight it looks like it is going to be no rain but lots of wind.

We fueled up with diesel tonight and the price was pretty good at 2.199 and that has been on the high side of what we paid.

Last night spent the night at By The River RV Park & Campground.  Our view out the front was the river.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny maters compared to what lies within us.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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May 19, 20016 Travel Day

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Ray

Ah Much better day, we departed N Ft Myers RV park and headed North. Good news the tow bar worked just as suppose  Yes we drove through some rain and part of the time it was heavy.  Was good to be on the road and to actually start our trip.  Here are some pictures from the day.

Here is our traveling companion Polly who seems to be enjoying the trip.0519160954bAnd here is Polly needing us to stop at the rest stop

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And here is Polly getting back into the Motorhome so we can head on up the 75

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And here we are making the left turn onto the 10, would be nice if our driving time on the 10 would be as short as our drive on the 75.

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May 18, 2016 Why Still in North Ft Myers, FL

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Ray

Today was very frustrating, we were both up and started to get ready to be “ON THE ROAD AGAIN”.  I started with hooking up the car first step was to connect the tow bar and then the fun began, actually I had some other thoughts…

When I started to connect the tow bar one of the bars would not extend the other one was a little stiff but came out OK and I lubed it and it worked OK.  So now back to my trouble one.  I tried to us a hammer thinking it would slid out without too much problem, it was a nice thought but no success.  Next I called the manufacturer and they said it is old enough that I should rebuild the unit and as part of that said “the bar needs to come out” but no real suggestion on how to do that.  So I thought there must be someone in the area that could repair the unit but everyone I called either said no parts or we don’t service that brand.  I finally call one company and they said bring it in and they would look at it and see what could be done.  OK so when I walked into the shop the owner said Oh we can’t look at it now you will have to leave it and if we have to order part should be able to fix it but would not commit to a time frame.  I decided it was time for me to either fix or break the unit.

Next phase, stopped and pickup a 5/8″ allen wrench, pickup Virena, some tools that I had put in the Motorhome and headed to the house to work on the problem.  Took the arm off of the tow bar and found a old cold chisel and a 2.5 pound hammer and started to drive the arm out to the extended position, this was a very slow process but finally succeeded.  So now put everything I’d taken apart back together cleaned up and headed back to the Motorhome.  We decided it was too late today to head out so instead we did a little grocery shopping.  So only thing left was to connect tow bar to car and make sure it connected OK and I felt like it was a success.

So to finish up the day went for a walk and ran into Vern who lead the Along Sider Class that I recently completed what a pleasant surprise.  We had a nice talk and committed to contact each other when I’m back home.

Hope you are having a great day

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