OUR RV IS NOT A MAYTAG!!!

Do you want the good news... or the bad news first?... The good news is we are at a very nice camping spot on Virginia Beach.  It is very private and we've had some great walks on the beach and rode our segways down to a terrific seafood restaurant.  The campground is located on a peninsula so we get to see sunrises and sunsets on the beach... ok we saw the sunset and considered waking up for the sunrise.. maybe tomorrow... lol

And continuing on good news, I'm pretty sure I married the RV equivalent of the MAYTAG REPAIRMAN!!!

Now the bad news... our mechanic in Charlotte is not winning any popularity contests in the Park Household.  So far, almost everything he worked on has either re-broken, not worked "quite right" or was downright overlooked.  Dave assures me that none of it is truly life threatening and he can handle the road without these safety features.  So am I concerned?... Stay tuned... He also said after a full day of being a shade tree mechanic that he did not want to break camp and test drive his efforts... if it didn't work, he would just have a sleepless night... So tomorrow we will test it out in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel!!!!

So what are we dealing with?.. well the RV has lost a few gears... just the lower ones... but we are in flat land  and don't really need them ... yet!!!  AND the anti-lock brakes no long work due to a faulty right wheel speed sensor.  The good news there is we only need it when we are slowing down!  After numerous phone calls, Shade Tree Dave located a new part and put it on, so we THINK the brakes are fixed.... As for the gears, they required a bit of creativity.  He also discovered that the mechanic in Charlotte did not see an obvious break in the indicator cable anchor.  First we found out that broken part is "obsolete."  AND there are no substitutes.  This generated a few choice words, but did not stop Shade Tree Dave... He got out his handy  J B WELD epoxy glue!...  so Dave glued it, "blessed it", and reconnected everything. Now we have all of our gears, we just have no indicator, so we just won't know which one we're in!!... Will it hold??  Stay tuned and stay off of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel!!

Meanwhile, Deb listened to Dave's rants, occasionally handed him parts and flashlights, and retreated to her sewing table, where she finished Ella's dress... now she can coordinate with Abbie's purple one!!   And at one point Deb just shook her head when Dave was up under the RV talking to Clay on the phone and diagnosing Clay's home repair by telling him to get a glass and hold it against the walls and floors so that he could listen better to his house "talking"!!!

So there are a few questions to sum up this blog....

• Will the anti-lock brakes work?  We'll let you know when we go 20 miles/hr. or less tomorrow...
• Will we have more than forward and reverse?... Probably, but we will only know which gear by feel (and this IS an automatic!!).
• Will the rest of the parts on our NON MAYTAG RV get jealous of  ALL of the new parts being installed and the attention to the obsolete ones?  Is there a mutiny of parts on the horizon?
• How soundly will Shade Tree Dave sleep?  Will we wake up for the sunrise?
• Will we get across the Bay Bridge?.... stay tuned for that one...
• When will Deb see Ella in her dress? 
• And finally... what DID Clay hear in his house?