Daily Archives: July 16, 2009
New York, New York…
I had a rude awakening this morning, or rather, a diesel awakening. And Jan had a good laugh at my expense.
Jan got up early but I was sleeping in…at least for a while. About 9 am, I was suddenly awakened from a deep sleep by our coach engine starting up…right underneath me. Our bed is right over the engine and it’s very LOUD when it’s running. And then about 5 seconds later, it quit.
Running out to the front of the coach I found Jan laughing. It turned out that lady next door had come over and told Jan that her cat was hiding under our coach, and ask Jan to start the engine to scare the cat out.
Well, it worked. It apparently scared the hell out of the cat and it took off, probably even harder to catch now.
And it scare the hell out of me, too.
Luckily I had showed Jan how to start the coach. Starting a diesel is not difficult, but there is a procedure you have to go thru so you don’t get all sorts of error messages.
We’re in a nice, woodsy RV park with a lot of wildlife around. So far, we’ve seen rabbits, a mother deer and her two fawns, and a flock of 5 or 6 wild turkeys. But no bears…yet.
Black Bear Campground
Later in the morning I finally got a chance to install the new replacement board in my EMS (Electrical Management System) that had died a couple of weeks ago in Williamsburg.
The new board kind of worked, but it didn’t completely fix the problem. So after talking to the company, they’re sending me another part. Hopefully this will fix it.
About 11 am we headed over to Middletown, NY, the nearest larger town. We wanted to pick up some things for the coach, see the countryside, and grab some lunch.
After our stops at Radio Shack and Advanced Auto Parts, we stumbled across Cosimos’ Brick Oven, a great Italian restarant. Jan and I both had panini sandwiches from the lunch menu. Really good. Hope we can go back before we leave.
Coming back we detoured over to Harriman, to check the location where we will be catching the MTA train into New York.
After we got back and took a nap, I went back to work on getting the satellite dish working. Yesterday, I was not able to get a signal from the satellite due to nearby trees.
So this afternoon, Jan helped me hoist the dish up on the roof of the coach for a better site line.
About 5 minutes later I had a signal and we had TV again.
After I finished with the satellite, Jan and I sat out in the fading light and enjoyed some sangria.
Life is good!
