Thank God we are always behind on the last minute packing. Karen goes into the basement to grab a pair of pants out of the drier literally 10 minutes before we are to launch and the basement is flooded and water is spraying out of the hot water tank. I thank God cause this could have been a huge problem had we left and it kept flooding for weeks. Ed's right we should buy a boat!
We clean up the water and I attached a hose to the tank and shove it into the sump pump crock. Call Matt and put in my order for a new hot water tank...sounds easy enough unless like a dummy you shove the hose in to far and jam the float on the pump. And yes you guessed it the basement flooded.
So thank God Gabe stopped over 5 days later to grab the mail and discovered our " Lake Muzic" in the basement.
We clean up the water and I attached a hose to the tank and shove it into the sump pump crock. Call Matt and put in my order for a new hot water tank...sounds easy enough unless like a dummy you shove the hose in to far and jam the float on the pump. And yes you guessed it the basement flooded.
So thank God Gabe stopped over 5 days later to grab the mail and discovered our " Lake Muzic" in the basement.
Remember this handy little tool from last years blog. Well we wake up the first morning in West Virginia and the Winnie is frozen and won't start.So Captain Joey crawls under the camper and does his best imitation of a grease monkey and gets old Winnie started. Ready to get the Hell out of this 12 degree weather and get to the South. Hold on ...we now realize it's probably not a good idea to put the slideouts on the camper out in 12 degree weather. After an hour of trying to heat up the camper and pushing on slideout we get it to retract.
On the road again. Our next destination South Carolina and a State Park called Sesquicentennial SP. Weather is much better now probably 45 to 50 degrees.
We back into our site and try to extend the slideouts and yes you probably know where I'm going with this story. The motor for the hydraulics is fried. Best part is the slide went out 4 inches then died. I wonder what kind of a trade in on a boat I could get. We still feel very lucky though and the weather is getting nicer everyday.
On the road again. Our next destination South Carolina and a State Park called Sesquicentennial SP. Weather is much better now probably 45 to 50 degrees.
We back into our site and try to extend the slideouts and yes you probably know where I'm going with this story. The motor for the hydraulics is fried. Best part is the slide went out 4 inches then died. I wonder what kind of a trade in on a boat I could get. We still feel very lucky though and the weather is getting nicer everyday.
 We found a nice RV shop in Green Cove Springs. They ordered the motor and we will be hanging out in this area for a week or longer. We stayed at River Bend Golf Club for two days then headed into the woods. We are in Ocala National Forest. Our first site is featured in the photo(site 27). For some reason The Princess feels the need to move after 2 days and we are on site 4 now. It's like we went to a completely different park. So she tells me. |  |
Guess where we are now!!! I noticed after spending a lot of time on the outside of the camper we had a severe issue with the tire that we purchased at Bud's Grocery. That story is in the archive blog from 2/28/15 "Some one help me I have a flat tire".
I do not like roadside assistance so after golfing at Baseline Golf club we headed straight to Baseline Auto Repair and Tire. So $205.78 later I trade in my Indy 500 slick for a nice 10 ply Firestone all terrain. So officially I have bought 9 tires in less than 12 months. And we still think we are the luckiest people in the world.
I do not like roadside assistance so after golfing at Baseline Golf club we headed straight to Baseline Auto Repair and Tire. So $205.78 later I trade in my Indy 500 slick for a nice 10 ply Firestone all terrain. So officially I have bought 9 tires in less than 12 months. And we still think we are the luckiest people in the world.
Okay so this will be last "lucky" story of this blog. Some people might not think it was funny but we laughed like hell..LLH for short. Apparently you should never trust a guy smoking a cigar and drinking a beer to guide you into your site. As you can see in the picture a fist up in the air is not white power but it is the international sign for " you just backed into a tree moron"
Actually I think you are suppose to give the sign right before hitting the tree!
But...we still think we are two of the luckiest people. We have all of you to come home to.
Actually I think you are suppose to give the sign right before hitting the tree!
But...we still think we are two of the luckiest people. We have all of you to come home to.
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