Sunday, August 26, 2012

On The Move...

I got sick and tired of taking photographs of mobile repair techs and diesel repair facilities and writing about breakdowns along the way. There have been far too many of them along the way. Enough already. So- just a few lines to say that the trip from Washington to Yellowstone National where we find ourselves for the next ten days was rotten. No pictures. I refuse. We had two slide issues- came out fine but wouldn't go back in. A leak in the black tank valve- that by itself can ruin your day! And tire sensor alarms, that turned out to be false alarms, happened on desolate roads with no shoulder where once again we had to stop dead in our tracks and deal with the situation right smack dab in the middle of the road.

So here I sit four blocks outside of Yellowstone, with three slides out and one that the guy finally got to come in- still in and refusing to go out. Not hard to understand since we had to cut the wires to it and hot wire it to a battery to get it to come in so we could keep going to this destination. Hopefully Monday morning hooks us up with yet another mechanic who can resolve the issue, because we've just about had it "up to here."

Exploring Yellowstone should be fun, provided we can get matters back to normal and ready to head back east after one last stop in Wyoming to visit our friends Bob and Polly. And that's the name of that tune!

2 comments:

Tapper Lans said...

Are you guys headed south from West Yellowstone? If so...give a wave to the little town of Ashton...where I worked with a local doc a long, long time ago...

diane-j-m said...

Joe wants to know how the slide outs went out just outside of Yellowstone? Were you staying at a park outside of Yellowstone when it happened? I guess pushing in one of our slide outs in once in a while is not so bad as the problems you had. Sounds like you are taking it all in stride and as part of the adventure. Joe say's you are a better man than him. He would be freaking out. How far est are your going? Can not seem to find your card. Can you send me your phone number and email to my email.Joe wants it in case he needs to ask you some questions in the future. Have fun in Yellowstone!