Apr 01, 2016
The joke is on us
Happy April Fools day…..not 🙁
Eric our RV tech arrived at 9:15PM last night. Meanwhile we had a good dinner and had both showered. The RV was ready to go other than the problem with the bedroom slide. The good news is that the termites passed us by.
First problem, detected within 3 minutes is that the on/off switch in the bedroom slide is not working as in the spring is not working properly. Not a big deal. The main slide problem is due to the new slide out rubber Eric had installed in January. Hard to explain but it has something to do with the rubber expanding and the memory the rubber has. Seems he has to cut some rubber off. Likely we will have to have him do the same thing with the living room slide.
By now we would have been in bed due to the 5AM wake up call. The girls and I slept on the living room sofa while two guys went in and out as well as Colin trying to fix the problem. I woke up about 11PM so discover that they were leaving.
We apparently are not. Good thing I slept through it all as I would have been rather stressed.
So today we await the return of Eric, after he completes other jobs he had scheduled for this morning. No idea when he will arrive. No idea on when the slide/slides will be repaired. Apparently the consensus is that it can be fixed but when? No idea when we will be leaving here. No idea how far we will be going if we can even leave today. Or do we wait until 5:30AM tomorrow? Likely we won’t be leaving today but hopefully tomorrow. As Lucy commented on my last post, things happen for a reason. We can only hope that our delay was for a good reason.
What I do know is that I will be spending the day changing all of our reservations and plans for the next week. I had planned a few relax and enjoy days but those will now become travel days. One of those relax and enjoy days had already been scheduled to do all the flea bedding at a laundromat with hot water. We do have to be in Vancouver, B.C. for April 15th to get the RV serviced and as that is a Friday the date can’t be delayed. The next day we will head home where a slew of appointments await us for our first two weeks there.
Meanwhile we get to enjoy yet another final beach walk and celebrate Caeli’s 11th birthday today.
Caeli on an earlier beach walk, not wanting to get hosed off.
Carmeh being sweet. Colin was reaching under the sofa into our storage there and she was too relaxed to move.
Amusingly this is yet another pack up and then a bit of a mini set up again this season 😕
Our dust screen really protects us. We still get dust from horses passing by on the road next to as but not as bad as it could be. I love to power wash things 🙂
We had so much propane left in one of our tanks that we had to burn off the fuel otherwise it would expand from all the heat in Arizona and we could have had a problem. We did not sit and enjoy the flames as we were packing up inside.
Carmeh finds a spot to rest.
Caeli also finds a place to nap under all the chaos during pour pack up.
So now we just wait and see what comes next.
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It would never have occured to me to burn off propane, where and how do you learn stuff like that? Hope you’ll be on the road soon, safety first.
Last year because of my Dad we only left the very end of November. Coin had the propane tank filled and by the time we hit the warmer climate we could smell propane in the car where the tank was. Propane expands in the heat.
I sure hope you get out of there very shortly. So good to see the girls having such fun times.
Thanks Sandie. Repairs completed end of day Friday and we are off early Saturday morning.
Sending you lots of good thoughts for “see off day!”
The temps up here have been in the 70’s all week and the flowers are blooming and the snow is melting away.
When you get home I don’t think you will have to worry about any of the white stuff.
See-you,
David
Just thinking of you and hope everything is falling into place now.