Day 8. Thursday August 31, 2023 - At Greg's Moutain House. Well, I'm here! I drove 329 miles today and 700 of them were from NC RT-71 in Elkins, NC to Sparta NC. Now I'm not sayin' that the road from Elkins to Sparta was narrow, curvy, mountainous, and stressful, but the road from Elkins to Sparta was narrow, curvy, mountainous, and stressful. So much so that Greg actually met me on the way in and drove his truck ahead of me in order to warn oncoming traffic that a motorhome was coming their way. I think several on-comers drove into ditches just to get away from me. But here I are! Safely ensconced on the property across from Greg's for a day or two while cement is poured at Greg's place to put the finishing touches on the access to the bunk house he added just for the rest of the brothers, grandsons, cousins, and friends who are arriving on the 4th or 5th or so. Upon arriving his lady friend Sue, had a grand dinner all prepared and she had done...
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August 30,2023. Caney RV Resort. POSH. Way too POSH for an overnight stay. Not as POSH as Pleasantville RV Resort Community in Florida was, but they do have lots of golf carts for cruisin' and wave'n. BTW: I'd like to apologize to the world for referring to Siri as Alexa in yesterday's post. Apparently, she reads my blog and boy-howdy did she give me an earful this morning! Then she pouted and ignored me all day. On the other hand, I had the highlight of the trip today because I found a Buc-ee's! If you don't know about Buc-ee's try to imagine a gas station with 120 gas pumps and a store/restaurant the size of a football field. Clean store, really good food, and friendly employees. It's more of a destination than a gas station. AND, they don't allow 18-wheelers onto the property. Just cars, small trucks, busses and RVs. So, it's not a truck-stop . On the other, other hand I also had a...
Here I am, at the Parkers Crossroads Campground, Yuma, Tennessee, and it is a lovely, lovely place run by lovely, lovely people. (For clarification see the: Grocery store scene in the movie, "Saving Grace." It is a lovely, lovely movie. Really. One of my favorites.) Re: Generator. Plan A, B, C, D etc., all failed, and I am just planning on living with the no-genny situation until I get to Greg's. It's not that hot and the Ford's dash AC is working pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. This morning found me at 8AM at the place that supposedly repairs Cummins Generators, and yes, they actually do! And they would be happy to fix mine right after they order the fuel pump (two weeks delivery, and $125.00) and schedule me in sometime next month. So that puts me back to Plan ZZZ, Gregs house. I ordered the new pump from Amazon ($20.00) and it should be at his place in a day or three. Today I turned on Alexa. Excuse me, today ...
Monday, August 28, 2023 It has been an interesting day. There I was, in Baird, Texas at the Sundance RV Place, (motto: "We have more burr clover here than anyone else"), cleaning the burr/stickers out of the two dog's feet and coats and sooooo looking forward to driving the rig thru Fort Worth/Dallas in the morning rush hour that I could just spit, when I decided to go around DFW no matter how far, and how long it would take me. At this point I grabbed the atlas and found that just thru happenstance (serendipity?) I was camped at the intersection of I-20 and RT283 which in conjunction with a couple of other routes would take me to Jacksboro, Texas which would put me onto RT380 which would run me across to I-30 at Greenville, which is where I would go thru upon leaving DFW anyway. So, I turned left and meandered over hill, and hill, and hill, and dale, and dale, and dale, and thru small, beautiful towns that still retain the flavor of the 1800's when which they w...
08-27-2013 Sunday. Day 4. Somewhere in Texas. East of Abilene, but not quite to "Cisco" which was my objective, but which became secondary to survival when I ran into rain that looked like it was going to get worse but after I stopped at the Sundance RV Park it got better and now it's sunny as all get out and I'm about 30 miles short of my goal. Last night I did some on-line research into why the rig's generator would run and then stop. Seems the exhaust system is really important so this morning I crawled under the rig and took a look. Well, I'm pretty sure that when this rig left the factory in 2014 it had four bolts holding the exhaust pipe to the exhaust manifold but this morning it only had one and that one was loose. And the manifold gasket was hanging out the side. This struck me as a thought, "Maybe that's not right!" So, I pushed the gasket back into place and put three additional bolts into the flanges and congratulated myself o...
Starship Bounder - NCC1703
Greetings and solicitations. This is the first entry in this new blog in which I shall attempt to humorously describe the day-to-day trials and tribulations of the wonderful world of RV'ing (?!) as I travel from my hovel in Phoenix to my brother's palace in the thriving metropolis of Sparta, North Carolina. I say humorously because if I don't laugh about it, I will certainly cry about it and that's just no fun. I'm in Mahahanama, Texas, or something like that. In a nice RV Resort, which is how more and more RV Parks are describing themselves usually so they can charge more than the old-fashioned RV Parks. But in this case, it is a very nice park at a very reasonable cost. So there. Today was fun. My RV Generator stopped generating and without the generator the roof air conditioners don't work so the dogs and I had to make do with just the Ford Chassis Dash Air conditioning and as hard as it tried it just wasn't up to cooling a 30-fo...