Monday, Sept. 17
Today we broke camp and are heading for Anacortes, WA to see my dear friend and college roommate, Sally Wirtzfeld. It was 27 degrees when we got up this morning. I found out that this presents great challenges when you are staying in a gravel trailer. Our furnace keeps us toasty. The only problem was that our water hose froze solid and froze to the water hydrant. I could not remove the hose, let alone having no water in the trailer. My hair dryer did the trick to get the connections loosened, but the hose was still frozen, so I put it in our shower so we didn’t flood the storage area when it thawed. Later, we encountered an electrical problem with the motor that electronically raises and lowers the tongue of the trailer. A very nice man with the local power company happened to be at the park. He checked it out and found a wire had pinched, resulting in the wire shorting out. Until we can get it fixed we hole that jiggling it, like he did, will make it work. Albany RV was supposed to supply us with a device to manually work the tongue up and down, but never did. Good old Albany RV. We continue to recommend that no one even consider buying from them because their service is so terrible.
One thing I will say, is that we have run into more nice, helpful people during our journey than you can imagine. People watch, and anytime it appeared we were having a problem, some nice person appeared asking if they could help. This has happened several times. Also, the folks that own the RV parks are great and very friendly. It has made our trip delightful in the sense that I feel there are many wonderful people in this country who are trying to make things better.