Flexibility

Thursday June 20th we spent about 3 hours at Panara Bread in Hunington WV trying to find a place to fix the generator.  Beech Fork State Park where we were staying was a very nice area.  It was in a valley surrounded by mountains.  Thus no phone or internet service which is why we had to go to town to Panara to get internet.  It seems most RV dealers are booking appointments about 2 - 3 weeks out.  We need to be in Denver area by July 1.  After several phone calls we were able to get an appointment with a Cummins dealer in Henderson, CO for July 1.  So we adjust a few campground reservations and we are feeling some relief that we will get it done soon.

We had planned on spending 1 night in a Walmart one our way to St. Louis, MO, but with no generator  we had no way to run AC.  Temps were in the low 90s and we did not want to spend the night with no AC.  We located a campground on the route that had electric only hook up.  Great, we can easily do that.

On Friday, because of the winding and hilly roads in and out of the campground we decided to  drive the RV and Jeep separately.  So I drove the RV and Diana followed in the Jeep.  Once we got to I-64 we came to a rest stop.  The plan was to hook up the Jeep and move on.  But the alarm system for the transmission pump remain a problem.  Remember this problem developed in the heavy rain a few days before.  We dried out all the connections and let them sit in the warm sun hoping that would solve the problem.  Nope!  So we call our RV dealer who gave us a number for Remco, the pump manufacturer. They were very helpful and tried to talk us through the issue.  We spent 2 hours with me laying on the ground while Diana handed me tools and held an umbrella over both of us because the sun was hot and intense.  Still no luck.  This is a long story so I'll cut to the chase.  Finally we get an appointment at a Camping World for Saturday at 2PM.  Reroute the trip to Bowling Green, KY where we got to spend the night in the rear parking lot of  Camping World!  But we had electrical hook up so we had AC.  In a few hours we have our appointment and will hopefully get the situation fixed.  If we are really lucky they will fix the generator too.  We'll see how this goes.