Safe and Sound Wallydocking in NY-OH OH

We left Bangor bright and early this morning. Because we went to bed so early last night I awoke at 5:45 this morning..but it was really 4:45am. I forgot to put my time back an hour on my watch. Ok do I dare start the generator-I sure could use a nice hot coffee...upon much pondering I made an executive decision to wait. I know our generator is fairly quiet but still... So I grabbed my kindle and read a few chapters of my book..all the while eyeing the coffee pot. There was still coffee in there from last evening..I had forgotten to empty it after supper. Hummm thinking it would be strong enough to stand alone I poured it in a cup..heaven knows I needed all the strength I could get for the drive today..so I slapped it in the microwave, all the while wondering if the mic would run on the inverter..yeahhh it did. I was so nice to sit with my hot coffee in the peace and quiet and just watch the early morning risers drive by. And it tasted good too.
The drive today was longish..we left Bangor shortly after 8am and arrived here at 4:30pm. We only had three cutoffs today, thank heavens for air horns. Turn signals people... turn signals are on your car for a purpose. It sure can be scary at times, and I always dread driving thru Hartford Ct..Thankfully I have a great chauffeur who is always on task. Lucky for him I have mifi now and absorb myself in the words with friends and net surfing.
Upon arrival we got a great parking spot here our livingroom slide and bedroom slide are on the curb side and theres only grass on the other side of the curb.
When putting the slides out we heard a loud crunch, and kathump in the bedroom :(...oh oh...
After some investigation, my smart man discovered that the shear pin in the shaft that drives the gear to move the slide in and out broke...thankfully the slide was all the way out when it did. While I heated up supper Rick walked over to walmart but this walmart doesn't have an auto section. He found a bolt in his tool box (theres everything in there but the kitchen sink) and he thought this might be an option-so filed and sawed it for proper length (who the heck carries a hack saw not something I'd think to load on the rig) ...but after careful deliberation ~decided to use an allen key because its a harder steel. Here is my Mr. Fix it hard at work.

It is working again (Don't test that -its out leave it out what if it comes half way in and stops)..I was informed any good job has to be tested..and low and behold it is working. Tomorrow we will try find somewhere to buy some spare pins-just in case. Of course during all of this kafluffel I had all the warranty info out ready to make the call if necessary. We do have warranty on all of this stuff. But Mr. Man doesn't think it worth while to call the RV service (if you can find one) for a fifty cent pin. Good thing he's handsome and "handy". Yup got me a Red Green sorta fella.

We made another electronic purchase last evening. We have the standard analogue TVs in this coach. We decided while down south we would purchase flatscreen digitals and redo the openings yadda yadda (yup he also has a skill saw on board)..but for now we purchased a converter to change the signal from digital back to analogue and we can pick up around 12 channels just on our roof antenna. We did have bell expressvue...but they changed out their satellites on us. So another hurdle jumped!! Just a few frustrations I say..not major..as I sign off this post, Rick just turned the handle on the antenna-to bring in the channels and the post, handle and spring landed on the floor-God love him. I'm sure he didn't appreciate me snapping this..but one needs to keep track somehow..

I wonder if we should hold up tomorrow and take the day off -they say it comes in 3s.....

Be safe out there foks...

"Home is where you park it"