Heading out!

Gallup, New Mexico...

We just returned from Wal Mart, where we have stood around for the requisite amount of time watching our Pickup truck be worked on in the service bay....  Of course we can't go into that bay, because they have one of those rules about customers not being out there..

As we stopped for gas, Loyce noticed that her rear tire had a big knot on the sidewall, and came over to  make me go look at it.....  Yep, were done for the day I told her...

We found an RV park on old route 66 here in Gallup, Nm, called the USA RV Park....  It's an old KOA complete with the A frame building as an office and bathroom.  But its price was back in the mid $30 range, not $45 like real KOA's.

Once parked on the wee little narrow site, where we are back to back and front to front with our fellow campers sharing the power pedestal with the camper to our rear.... we were off to Wal Mart to see if they might have a tire to match the Truck......  Its a 20 inch rim, and I didn't hold out much hope...  But they did!  And they installed it right away as well....

The manager actually came out and put it on for us as they only had one other fellow working tires....

But lets back up and remember last night.....  We finished working on the Motorhome and went back to the house to pack up the rest of our travel stuff....  And in that process, I decided to walk around the outside of the house another time just checking out stuff......  That's when I saw it!

The AC  condensate drip,  was coming from the wrong pipe again....!!  From the Emergency pipe meaning the safety tray under the entire AC unit and not from the piping on the furnace......  It was after 9 PM......  I just sat in my chair for a while wondering if we should extend in the RV Park and leave in a couple of more days....

But I made the call, and explained that the fellows had been out here to fix this before and didn't obviously get the task corrected.....  And that we were leaving in the morning before breakfast, but that we didn't dare leave with this problem still uncorrected....  And that we couldn't just depart, leaving it that way when we wouldn't be back until October........

The service writer said he would have a manager call me before 10 PM....  And Joe did call almost at once...  We speculated how this could be happening again, and he said he would find out if one of the Techs would come have a look even though it was quitting time....

This tech arrived and  found that the furnace should have had a plug in one of the open drain holes, and it hadn't been installed..  So water was running out of the open hole and down into the emergency pan.  Some was going into the correct drain and some was running out the wrong way too....

This technician spotted the open hole almost before he was up in the attic....  He turned on the light up there and said there's your problem right there....  What was wrong with the first guy?, I wondered under my breath.....

Well anyway it was after 11 PM when that got rectified, so our wake up came early this morning.  Once packed into the truck and the house was locked with the  security system set, we were off to the RV Park to get the RV folded up....  We just tossed our remaining luggage on the sofa and loaded the now cold fridge with food...

Having hook ups over night before we left worked well as the AC had run all night and  so did the fridge...  And by about 10  AM we were packed and driving...  It was 97 as we left the valley and didn't cool off much until we climbed the White mountains West of Payson..  At the top of the mountain, we ran into a rain storm that dumped sleet, like it was snowing.....  The temperature up there went down to 58, and water covered the road....

The Az highway patrol was stopping people and making them file thru the water single lane, but it wasn't much of a problem for our tall motorhome or the pickup that Loyce was driving either..

Again here tonight we are in a rain shower and it is in the low 60s outside and seems cold, after a month of 100s in Az...

Our gas tanks are full, and we have a new tire on the truck, so we should be good to go again tomorrow...

Retired Rod