Wednesday October 18, 2023
This morning we got up and we're finally leaving the HDT Rally in Hutchinson, Kansas. Sad everyone was great.
We were treated to a beautiful sunrise.
At 10:00 this morning Jim made arrangements to go to the campout with the switch crew for the Tampa RV show. Now we wait to see if we get accepted.
Again it was super windy, but we headed over to get the camper and truck weighed. I feel there's going to be a need for an RV diet in our future. Then we pulled up onto the scales, per there instructions.
It took only a few minutes. He had to unhook the truck. Then they went over the numbers with us. So basically we need to loose about 1,000 lbs on RV. And or get a bigger truck :)
Then we headed for Missouri, for a Switch It Up campout, starting on Friday.
The drive was about 4 hours. We had to go around Kansas city, was quite busy. There was crazy clouds on the drive.
We arrived at the Watkins Mill State Park. Was quite beautiful, there a lot of trees changing colors, reminds us alot of Pa.
First we had to fill our tank with fresh water. They only have electric at the sites.
Then we checked in and got backed into our site.
Kind of tricky backing in around trees and a narrow tight drain pipe next to it.
It was nice they had a water spicket right next to our site. Which was nice to keep filling the Berkey with.
Once we got plugged in, we realized our inverter wasn't working.
So therefore the fridge and outdoor counter height freezer wasn't working on the whole trip. That's a big stressor for me.
Jim tried the rest of the day to get it working again. This will be our third one since we started full-time over 6 years ago. The original lasted a couple years. Then we had Jim from Sycamore Hill RV in Pennsylvania install the second one. Lasted 4 years and the last one Jim put in, with a monitor inside the RV, so he wouldn't have to contort himself to try to read when it would throw a code.
Every time they stopped working we were never able to get them on again. We discussed it the rest of the day. As we started looking for one. I called 8 to 10 places looking. I called a Camping World and got the best employee ever. He kept checking and then called us back and told us what he found. He's like " I'm not done yet, now it's a challenge " he'd check and called us back again. He never heard of the brand we had.
Jim and I decided we should get a different brand. I wanted to get one that was compatible with lithium batteries. So we have it when we are ready to change.. As this one is not compatible, right now we have three AGM's.
Later we had dinner and tried to de-stress.
See what tomorrow brings.
Thursday October 19, 2023
This morning Jim was up first and got the coffee going. Stressing about the inverter. Trying to come up with a plan and find one online.
Then when I got up I looked out the window and there was four deer across the road from us. As all those sites were still empty.
There was 4 they disappeared into the woods.
This morning I even called Dwight and Christy to see if they knew anybody that we could call for help with our inverter issues. He called me right back and was very helpful.
None of the crew are here yet, we are the first to arrive. Everyone will get here on Friday.
Later I took a walk all around the state park here.
Jim was looking for an inverter. When I called the campground in Branson to see if they would accept a package if we had it sent there. They said they would.
I Told Jim firewood was $5 a bundle.
He went down and got $20 worth and had a lovely fire, hopefully it helped him decompress from the day.
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