Thats what we think of South Carolina! The trek through it seems so long and boring. No billboards to read..nothing but big pine trees line the route. Cory took route 26 east to south95 is just as boring and bumpier! The old RV jumps and rattles with every rough patch he hits. No wonder all the screws loosen up and the metal clasps break! Our new friends we met at Red Bay in May had a liquid suspension installed in their RV..now thats the way to go! We have Koni shocks and but still my innards are getting jiggled all over. My body feels like a human washing machine. Up until now, the roads have been very nice and not much construction to contend with..all pluses. I guess I better stop my whining..suck it up, Buttercup!
Where shall I begin? Time to share our trials and tribulations. Wouldnt be normal if we didnt have something to deal with and write about.
On the first day of our trip South, I was injured! Yup!HOW you all must wonder. Ill tell you. I was stung by a hornet on my finger! OW!! It was flying around in the RV
and I grabbed it with a Kleenexsqueezing hard and what I thought was to death. Nope! It stung me right through the hankie before it took its last rotten breath! OW!! I flushed that sucker down the toilet. The pain, The pain! I grabbed an aspirin, soaked it and applied it to my wound. Ahhhhh. Relief. I lived! Feel sorry for me? I hope so.
I already briefly hit upon our next problem when I posted the note stating we had stopped for the night at the Candy Hill Campground in Winchester, VA. Now, Ill go with the juicy details. Dutiful Cory went outside to do all of the hookups like he always does. I hollered to him that the water pressure was only a trickle. Rats! He came in an checked it (he always checks my observations). Yup! Just a trickle. He went back outside to check it all out. Changed the filter (which he had done in May). Still nothing. Tried it with no filter. Nothing. After studying everything related to this water system, he found no water was going into either our City Fill part or our clean water holding tank! Rats! He jiggled the
handles, etc. Nothing! Of course, all the mechanical workings are behind a big panel in the Now what? We put our issue on our Facebook site called Tiffin Motor Homes Technical Forum. We received some appropriate and helpful suggestions..all mostly saying we need a new check valve. Cory called Joe Rossi cause he thought he had had a similar issue. His was different but he offered some ideas also. Good Joe! After some contemplation, we decided to try and find an RV repair place to help us out. Hah! We called one place and they were booked until October! Called another..same scenario! Jeepers! Time for Plan B! Called Tiffin and Cory ordered the parts he figures he will need. We called a couple of the mobile RV services that we have to our RV at Tropical Palms in the past. Best we have so far is an appointment on Sept.23rd when one out. In the meantime, Cory has been watching YouTube on how to fix this problem. Hes thinking he may give it a try once he gets the parts. He has his work suit hell put on. Oh, God..where are you, Art
& Dave, when we need you!! So thats the plan. In the meantime time, it is not a life or death situation. We use a bucket of water for the toilet. Our water pump still works so we can use the water left in our holding tank until that goes empty. The campgrounds have showers so we dont have to just get ripe and stink. We have handi wipes and bottled water. We can eat out so I dont have to wash dishes (Thank you, God). Ill use the laundromat instead of my new washing machine..havent used it yet! Whats a few more weeks? As we said it could always be so much worse.
Couldnt get our TV cable to work. Art, Where Art Thou? Used the local antenna which was fine. Cory will try to get it straightened out once we get to TP. We may have to FaceTime Art. Please be on standby.
We stayed at a very nice campground last night: Carolwinds Wilderness CG.
