Monthly Archives: May 2009
Turkey Lasagna & Cheesecake Tarts…
Today we slept in until about 11 am (well, I slept in until 11. Jan got up about 9).
About 1pm we headed over to our friend’s house to meet them. Jan and Charlee headed out to shop and get pedicures while Bill and I watched the ‘Deadliest Catch’ marathon on Discovery Channel.
After the girls got home, we had a delicious turkey lasagna and salad. For dessert Charlee had also made Oreo Chocolate Pie and Cheesecake Tarts.
Great Eats!
But on a down note, when we got back to the coach about 10 pm, we found the 30 amp circuit breaker tripped outside on the pedestal that we plug into. The temperature inside was 81 degrees. Not good for our cats, but luckily, they were OK.
This park only has 30 amp power so we can only run 1 AC at a time, which is normally not a problem. But apparently in this park the power is a little flakey.
The other problem was that because the inverter was on, the coach batteries were drained down. This meant that with the converter/charger trying to recharge the batteries when I reset the breaker, there wasn’t enough power left over to run the AC to cool the coach down.
However we did all right by running the roof ventilation fans and opening a couple of windows. Because it was fairly cool outside due to the recent rains, the coach cooled down pretty quickly.
Finally about 1 am the batteries were charged up enough for me to start the AC for the rest of the night.
We’ll see how this goes tomorrow…
Palm Beach
Well, we did make to West Palm Beach today with no problems except for a lot of rainy weather.
We got an early start (for us) about 8 am since we knew it would take us about 3 hours just to get off the Keys since so much of the drive is at 45 mph speed limits and even 35 mph.
We got back into Homestead about 11 am and parked the coach in the WalMart parking lot.
After unhooking our toad, we headed over to GoldCoaster RV Park where we stayed last week to pick up some mail that hadn’t made it before we left for the Keys.
After that we had lunch at Sonny’s BBQ before heading north to West Palm Beach. The rains really picked up after we left Homestead and followed us all the way to West Palm. But luckily it slacked off just as we arrived at the park so I didn’t get soaked setting up.
We pulled into the Palm Beach Gardens RV Park about 3:30 pm and got things plugged in and set up.
The friends we were here to see (the same ones who met us in Key West last weekend) showed up about 6:30 pm and we headed out to Riviera Beach to eat dinner at a restaurant at the marina.
After that we came back to our coach and visited for a while.
