It Happens Every Trip

Yesterday started with rain, but soon turned to snow--almost all day. We did get Mom to the bank and in to pick up her repaired hearing aids, but otherwise stayed inside and did little things for her. We undecorated her tree and got it to the basement, cleaned off the steps again and ate a lot of leftovers for dinner.

Today we got up early ready to get on the road and as Gary put up the levelers the inevitable happened. The right rear leveler wouldn't go up. But this time it wasn't the shear pin, so it needed to be cranked up a quarter turn at a time. Gary rebelled and said this time he would let Good Sam do the dirty work. So I sat on the phone for an hour and they told us someone would be out in 3 hours. At 3 hours and 15 minutes we got their follow-up call and told them nobody had arrived. So they tracked the fellow down and he showed up two hours later. Then he discovered he didn't have the correct tool and Gary discovered the automatic wrench he bought doesn't work. So to make this long story a little shorter, we left Mom's a little before 4 p.m., determined to at least make it to Portland. Since we had everything loaded, it would have been a pain to unload and stay with her one more night. Got lots of little things done for her (she "needed" a batch of cinnamon rolls, we washed towels and sheets, etc). We don't have working levelers, decided it was enough to get them all off the ground so we could get home. We've certainly had enough experience traveling without levelers in this rig. It will go back in to the repair shop as soon as we get home. I think we need to be reimbursed for the storage area it hardly ever uses. Sigh.

So we are on the road in the rain with lots of crunchy snow along the edges that is slowly melting. The good thing about the snow is that we didn't track any dirt or mud into the RV or Mom's house. Everything was nice and clean until today.

I am able to receive email again. Britta gave me a wonderful Christmas gift of a new hard drive, installed by her! Of course, it took longer than expected to save all my data to an external hard drive because my computer had a glitch. But it is now done and I am very happy to be able to get at all the emails I got while it was out of commission. I went from 40 gigs of hard drive space to 233 gigs! Very nice!

With any luck we will get home on Monday. Sure hope so!