Cooler here too, and RV repairs..

I usually don't like to talk about the weather, so I promise that this will be just the facts...  Arizona doesn't get really cold down here on the desert, but with that said, we had a night or two that was in the upper 30s...  That's at least ten degrees colder than normal for this time of year....

Had to start the heat one night, as it was only about 55 inside...  That sleeps OK but when you get up, there is a little frost on things..  I just switched the stat over to heat and set it on 68....   Haven't messed with it since...

But after dark, these crazy Arizonians are wearing winter coats.....  At 58 degrees...  One lady in Wal Mart had her winter gloves on and a knit stocking cap....  Really!!!  Back in Kansas its been below freezing all week....  Wonder what she would do...........

Anyway I have been pondering what to do about the list of broken RV  stuff...   Every RVer has this list, though only in their mind at times....  I try to put it off...  But eventually it bugs you when stuff don't work right...

High on that list is my crank up TV antenna...  I've drug it thru the trees in campgrounds so many times I can't count them...  And now that Loyce is gone and not watching me from the seat of her chase car, .......  well she would radio me to put the dumb thing down...  Its on my departure check list too...  But its Murphy's law, if it can, it will....

But anyway, I have found that East Valley RV Specialists up on Apache Trail is the authorized Tiffin repair facility out here in our end of town...  So I spent the afternoon taking the RV out of storage and hooking the Jeep to the back for about a two mile trip from storage...  Until I missed the driveway, which made me go around a 4 mile loop, in order to try again..

They are installing a new roof antenna that will turn to receive the strongest signal, but that won't crank up and down...  It is low enough to not catch on anything...  Its about $170 but I have no idea how much labor will be to install it...  Possibly more than that...

Also for years, I have had a 12 volt circuit breaker on the main battery panel above the frame rail in the passenger side foot locker behind the tire, that would trip when a lot of the stuff is running in the coach...

I would stop and push the button to reset it and then not run the dash air fan on high anymore...  And of course when I came into the 99 degree heat of the desert back in the middle of October, I went brain dead and ran the dash air on High and it only lasted about 10 minutes....

This service manager suggested replacing the breaker with an auto reset breaker, so it will just fix itself once it cools off.....  I've put up with that for about 3 years...  Not bad enough to warrant a repair of its own...  but still nothing works until its reset...  Seat, windows, radio, AC fan, all that stuff on the dash...    Anyway that's on his list..

I have a lot more on my list, but one has to pay for all of this stuff.......  Besides, I got the big one fixed last summer when I replaced the electric heating element in the water heater....  The rig is a 2008, and it needs a lot of stuff that I don't even know about yet....  And tires........  That's a biggy..

Another motorcycle trip in the morning...  We are planning to ride down to Ajo....  That's about 130 miles each way....  To make up for not riding on Thanksgiving I was told.... Sounds perfectly logical...... doesn't it?

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