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Slow Roller
May. 6th, 2019 03:00 pmI did not hurry at all back from the Bay Area. I managed almost eight hours sleep (thus probably four hours with the CPAP running), and took my time about getting going in the morning before setting forth. I also stopped and had a relatively leisurely breakfast in Tracy, and as usual refueled at Lodi Junction, then make an electronics stop at Fry's to make sure I have a VGA cable and an audio cable for (I hope) connecting my computer to SpikeCon's AV equipment for the Tonopah bid presentation that will happen on the first day of the convention. (And if you all vote for us, for our winning presentation!) Then it was on to the nursing home where I spent an hour or so sitting with my sister and discussing plans for my mother's remembrance gathering, which is now scheduled for Saturday, June 22 in Brownsville, California.
( Up the Hill... and a Wildlife Encounter )
After my wildlife encounter, I made only one more stop, where the snow was still high.
( Kingvale )
Lisa helped me unload the Rolling Stone, after which she then wanted to immediately look into the electrical issue with the hotel power on the RV. In one of those "it figures" moments, the lights were back on in back, but moving stuff around on the RV caused the lights to flicker. Lisa latest theory is that it might be a loose ground connection. She congratulated me on having done all of the things she would have done, as I did them over the phone by her direction.
We did fix at least for now the problem with opening the hood. After unlatching it together, she suggested that maybe it was the latch rather than the spring and sprayed silicone lubricant liberally into the mechanism. It works properly again and you can open the hood without assistance. That's a very good thing, as I've been in a situation (when the Astro's alternator seized up) where I was on my own and if I hadn't been able to open the hood and douse the fire, the whole vehicle could have gone up in flames.
It will be a while before I need to use the RV again, so we'll have some time to work on isolating and repairing the electrical wiring fault. I was certainly glad to get home.
( Up the Hill... and a Wildlife Encounter )
After my wildlife encounter, I made only one more stop, where the snow was still high.
( Kingvale )
Lisa helped me unload the Rolling Stone, after which she then wanted to immediately look into the electrical issue with the hotel power on the RV. In one of those "it figures" moments, the lights were back on in back, but moving stuff around on the RV caused the lights to flicker. Lisa latest theory is that it might be a loose ground connection. She congratulated me on having done all of the things she would have done, as I did them over the phone by her direction.
We did fix at least for now the problem with opening the hood. After unlatching it together, she suggested that maybe it was the latch rather than the spring and sprayed silicone lubricant liberally into the mechanism. It works properly again and you can open the hood without assistance. That's a very good thing, as I've been in a situation (when the Astro's alternator seized up) where I was on my own and if I hadn't been able to open the hood and douse the fire, the whole vehicle could have gone up in flames.
It will be a while before I need to use the RV again, so we'll have some time to work on isolating and repairing the electrical wiring fault. I was certainly glad to get home.
