First let me say I am tired. So I am rapidly forgetting what I did today. Or where I was….but let’s try.
I started at the RV Park in …. Hmmmmm… was it Pahrump, NV? Wasn’t there another stop after that? OK Monday was Home to Pahrump then Tuesday was Pahrump to … quick map check…Tuba City…Navaho Nation. Nice spot. Hot…Noisy at 5 am as all the workers leave for their jobs.
Had a nice hot shower… a good use of time. Then after I hooked up this am and left and came back in the other driveway to turn in the water faucet handle to get my $5 deposit back, I headed out and noticed the brake controller had a new light….red.
I quickly switched from Oakie Larry advice mode (what if the trailer starts fishtailing down a mountain?) to Heacock mode (This little thing…don’t bother with brakes). Drove all day without. I stopped at an RV Service center to ask them to check and they said the output plug looked OK, but it was probably just corrosion. Not very friendly. I filled the “empty” propane tank. It only needed 1.1 gallons. So it wasn’t an empty tank (they hold 4.2 gallons). So my thinking the refrigerator wasn’t cold this morning because the propane ran out was wrong. I switched tanks before relighting it, and maybe it was just not lit right last night. It got cold. But then why was it not cold today after hours of driving? Thinking spoiled food, which is all in the portable ice-chest.
Today I went over a hill. It starts in Pagosa Springs Colorado around 7,000 feet and goes up over a very steep mountain highway that had me struggling to keep up 30 mph in 2nd gear. At the top I read 12,900 on my GPS. Luckily they have a 35 mph speed limit all the way up. Did I mention the thunderstorms?
Falling asleep around 3 pm, which was 4 pm (time zone) I stopped – had a mountain dew, found a headlight out…jogged around a minute…back in and decide first motels I see are a good stop. Don’t want to have to fold up a wet camper in the morning. Guy at Auto repair center says only place to buy a headlight is in Amarosa, and that’s where I went and got the one halogen headlight they had at Walmart. I don’t think the existing one is halogen, and I’m thinking the wink is a nice look, but I have to remove the grill and turn signal cover lenses to chang6e the bulb so it will be a day or two.
And here I am at the motel, where there is supposed to be coffee in the room, but I don’t see it.
I’m posting this via e-mail, so lets see if it works, shall we?
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