Repairs, Wash and Another Thousand Trails Park

Today is “D” Day.  It’s the day that the Mobile RV tech is supposed to show up. We’re hoping he does and we’re hoping he knows his business.  Besides that we hope the fix is fast and cheap!  I’ll let you know about both of those issues before I post this blog.  Thus, the anticipation won’t last long.

Thursday we have another appointment scheduled.  That one is for a good wash and wax by Manny’s RV Wash.  It seems that is almost always on our calendar when we move into this area.  After all the wind and dust we’ve had recently, a good wash job is not just wanted.  It’s needed.

We always like hanging around this area.  Over the last few years we’ve done most of the tourist stuff.  That’s a good thing for Terry because he doesn’t have to be pulled around everywhere.  Oh … we have a few things we’ll be doing for sure but at least he doesn’t have to worry about two or three things a day.

There’s a little Coco’s Restaurant right down the road.  We’ve always liked going there in the past but it was mainly for their cobb salad.  This time we tried their prime rib special.  I’m not sure how many times we have to order items like that to realize that you only order steaks or prime ribs from steak restaurants.  Maybe one day we’ll get it.  We did bring home a doggie bag filled with the prime rib.  The little dog next door gobbled it up!

After leaving the Morgan Hill Thousand Trails park and being so disgusted with it, we were hoping that this Thousand Trails park had also not gone into disrepair.  We were pleased to discover that it was just the opposite.  Matter of fact, it’s even nicer than it was before.  The company has been doing a lot of upgrades here and the upgrades certainly show!

We even discovered the “pet” roadrunners still roam through the park.

And, what was the culprit that caused us so much mechanical stress?  Well, this is it.  The thing was cracked and arcing …. or something like that.  It’s a battery isolator switch (??) that needed to be replaced.  Funny ... we checked one of those but didn't realize we had two that needed checking.

Was it fast and cheap like we hoped?  You bet it was ... $215 later we were dancing a jig because it wasn't triple that!  Now that the task of starting the engine has been taken care of, we figure it’s probably time to think about replacing the windshield.  We’ll make that phone call after our wash and wax job.  It's one thing at a time.

Tis life on the road.

It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.