Saturday, November 1, 2014

11/1/14 - On 10/30 - we unhooked everything and went next door to a mechanic who informed me that he would put the RV on a computer diagnostic machine to see if he could repair it. Well, we did some driving around town since we thought we might need a motel room. We then spent most of the time in the recreation room waiting for news. We soon learned that it is computer issue and they would not be able to repair. We got her back, re-parked but just did electricity since we had an appointment at 8:00am at Kenworth's. 10/31 -We drove to Kenworth and a technician came out with his computer and said there definitely was a problem but not sure what so we needed to do a ticket and he would need to run some diagnostic testing. We went back to the office to learn that they were so busy because of the end of the month that they could not even start on it until Monday (11/3) so he made some calls and the garage in Tampa told us to drive right over and they would be able to check it out. I prayed all the way and got there at 9:35am. So now we are in Tampa, Florida. We later went out for lunch and they spent the rest of the day in their lounge which was equipped with water, TV, sectional couch and plugs to plug in all of electrical stuff. Around 4:00pm we were told there is definitely a problem but of course it would take another couple of days to finish the computer diagnostic tesing and more if they had to order the part!! So it was determined that we would just try to stumble along and get to Bradenton. We left Kenworth's around 4:30pm and drove about 10 miles to a Walmart that we shared with 3 other RV's for the night. 11/1 - We left this morning and it was very very windy so could only drive about 55 miles per hour but the RV did fine and we finally got to Bradenton. It took a long time to level the RV since everything here is sand so finally found some rocks to put under the boards to see if we could get it stabled. FINALLY!! We got checked in, showered and lunch. Plans are now to make an appointment with the Tampa garage so they can keep it for a week and fix me but will do that after I return from the Antarctic trip.

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