Saturday, 16-09-2023 - An interesting day.

First and foremost, we had a ball at Luray Caverns.  Shawn was in 7th heaven.  She really liked it.  It is the happiest I've seen her in all the time we've been together.  And that's saying a lot because our interests are pretty much diametrically opposed.  She likes anything woodsy and outdoorsy; I like anything mechanical or big, huge and made of metal.  Somehow the caverns sort of met in a midway point.  Weird but fun

Second and foremost, we arrived at her brother's house just in time to go to a big church dinner celebrating the return visit of some of their previous ministers, members, and choir members.  GOOD FOOD!  Good Folks!  Lotta fun.  Shawn got singled out as having come from the farthest away as it's kinda hard to top Alaska.  I got second place.  Neither of us mentioned we just happened to be visiting.

Third and foremost, the generator started just fine this morning and ran for most of the day.  Then it stopped about 80 miles from Burke and wouldn't restart.  When we went to dinner, I left the coach engine running (idling) with the AC on for the dogs.  When we returned, I tried to start the genny and it felt like there just wasn't enough battery voltage to spin it up.  So, I used the "boost" function where the coach adds in the house batteries to the coach battery and the genny started.  It's running right now and I'm going to leave it running all night as we have no shore power here at her brother's house.  The genny problem just gets weirder and weirder.  Cue the theme from Twilight Zone.

Note.  Just now, as I write this, the genny just shut down.

Oh well, I guess that makes it time to go to bed.  I'm glad this laptop has battery backup.

More tomorrow.  Maybe.

Rusty Pistons.



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