A Rest from the Road
Just 150 miles from home, we stopped for the night at the final campground for the Alabama to Acadia Magic Bus tour. In the morning we will be fresh and ready to tackle the last leg of our trip. If we were younger, we’d head on home, but driving this bus takes a lot of focus and unpacking it once we arrive is a huge undertaking.
Things We Left Behind
We left a little trail of things forgotten since Maryland. I neglected to remove the sewar collar that attaches our tank hose to the ground sewer hole! The sewar collar screws into the ground hole and then attaches to a ninety degree hose attachment for draining our tanks. I guess I was out of practice. Ed has been doing the hook-ups this trip all by himself, but since he is hobbling around like Peg-Leg Pete, I was trying to help. Ed discovered it missing when he hooked up at our final site on Monday night, September 22nd. I was surprised and grateful to hear we had an extra!
Somewhere at a Love’s in Staunton, Virginia the is an abandoned gas cap resting atop a pump, waiting to be collected. When we stopped to change drivers at the Welcome Center in Tennessee, Ed did a walk-around the rig and realized he’d forgotten to replace the gas cap! Unfortunately, we did not have an extra tucked away in our motorhome bay. Ed decided to use our tank-filler hose with shutoff valve to help cover the fuel filler port.
Scrambled Eggs
Pulling into the rest stop we had a sharp turn, a bump, and then suddenly we heard a loud crash from behind us! The refrigerator had slung open and deposited a case of beer and a carton of eggs. Thankfully, Candice’s hatching eggs were riding upfront in a padded soft cooler. The eggs we found in the floor made a mess, but were not much of a loss. Note for new RV friends, always recheck our refrigerator door closure mechanism. I know ours was latched, but somehow it worked loose from the shifting of weight.
Things to Fix When We Get Home
When we left Maryland on Monday, the slide didn’t go all the way in, again. As I watched it retract, I noticed it actually goes in UNDER the bed when it is retracting. I had shoes stored just under the end of the bed! I moved the slide back out and removed the shoes. When I retracted it again, it went in flush! Maybe that has been part of our problem all along! I have never left shoes down there before this trip and never will again! The slide still sounds like it is struggling though, so we need to have it looked at.
To drown out road noise we usually sleep with the overhead AC unit in the bedroom set to “on”. These last few stops the fan had been making a threatening sound like it has bearings going out or something. We will add that to the list of things to take care of once we get home.
We have been so blessed on this trip. Our list of repairs are minimal. We need to replace a battery on a tire pressure monitor because it goes out intermittently, we popped a reflector off against some obstacle along the way at the rear of the bus, our RV brake monitor cord needs to be replaced because it got crushed, and we may need a new shower head in the bathroom. We look forward to a little more fall camping with the grandsons and then we will winterize the RV for the season. We are happy campers!
