Monthly Archives: October 2009
Mexican times two…
Today we decided we needed a Mexican fix, and we got it, twice!
For lunch we headed over to El Camino Real, a nearby place that we really like. And, as usual it was great.
Coming home we stopped off at an Ace Hardware to pick up some plumber’s putty to use in installing the new faucet in the bathroom.
Passing a Dairy Queen, we dropped in for a Pumpkin Pie Blizzard. Mmmmmm !!!
When we got back to the rig, we had an email from Nick Russell. We had invited him out to dinner several days ago to celebrate his birthday. He’d ask to put it off a couple of days as he’s trying to get the latest issue of his Gypsy Journal RV Newspaper out. He was now caught up enough to take a break. So we made a date for 5 pm.
I worked on the faucet for a while, trying to get the old one out. These things are only suppose to be tightened by hand, but it always seems like they use big, honkin’ wrenches on them.
I haven’t been able to find my basin wrench, but before buying another one, I want to try my strap wrench. But it’s down in a bay somewhere, and I felt a nap coming on.
Nap time over, it was time to pick up Nick and Terry. Lucky for us, Nick had decided he wanted to go to El Marguey, our other favorite Mexican place here in Elkhart.
We had a great time talking about our many adventures, and recommending places to each other. Hopefully we’ll be able to do it again before we go our separate ways around the end of the month.
Good Times…
Drip…Drip…Drip…
Today started about 12:30 pm when I went over to Nick Russell’s coach to help him look for the computer diagnostic plug that’s supposed to be under the dash.
He wants to order a VMSpc computer interface for his coach as I described the other day, but first he needs to know whether his coach uses a 6 or a 9 pin connector for the plug.
But we didn’t have any luck finding the connector. It’s certainly not out in the open like mine is. Nick’s wife, Terry, thinks she’s found it behind a big bundle of wires under the left foot rest.
We’ll find out more when Nick’s VMSpc arrives.
Heading out for lunch we stopped by the park laundry room and dropped off a bunch of magazines that I was finished with.
For lunch we drove over to Mishawaka to eat at Famous Dave’s BBQ again. Except that Jan ordered a cheeseburger.
What’s up with that?
Leaving Famous Dave’s we stopped off a nearby Home Depot to pick up a new bathroom faucet. The one we have has a small drip that’s slowly getting worse, and it’s one of those ‘washerless’ faucets that can’t be repaired. We also picked up a Christmas tree storage bag that I plan on using to store the satellite dish while we’re traveling. The box it came in is slowly coming apart after almost two years on the road.
Then it was across the street to Walmart for more ‘stuff’.
Heading home, we stopped off a Goodwill store near the park to drop off some games and kitchen stuff that Jan decided we didn’t need anymore.
We’re still looking for a food bank or someplace we can drop off some food stuff, as Goodwill doesn’t take food.
After that it was back to the rig.
It’s supposed to get down to 30 degrees tonight, so I disconnected our water line and drained it, just in case. We just turn on our water pump and run on our internal 100 gallon tank.
Brrrr !!!!
