If you read the last post, you saw we had a pretty rough day. But we survived it, and expected things to get better. But bad turned to worse and a long two day delay to get things fixed ensued. All of the problems that seemed to work themselves out came back...and then some. Long story short, we found an auto dealer for the van and a diesel engine repair facility in the tiny town of Las Vegas- that's New Mexico, not Nevada, for the coach. The Santa Fe Trail. Somewhere between places we could have had problems and taken care of them easier....maybe. It took heating the van's exhaust system up to 1100 degrees to burn out the carbon in the exhaust system that wanted to make that engine not run. And it took an overnight replacement for a coolant sensor to get the engine on the coach up and running again. Small town friendly made a bad situation tolerable. Good service from small companies "on the spot" made it possible to get going faster than one might have thought. And the good folks at Spartan Chassis in Michigan shipped our part out late afternoon one day and it was here and installed before noon the next. Gotta love that....
So this is a report and not a story - true. But stress and fatigue from pushing as push requires to get back on the road made one too tired to be telling stories tonight. Last night the canyons echoed with the screams of the frustrated, but tomorrow morning, he said with his fingers crossed, the sounds will be the joyous sounds of a big diesel rolling down the highway. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm................
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