Monthly Archives: July 2010
Hitting the road…
Today was our last day at The Rally, or half day really. I didn’t want to be trying to leave tomorrow morning along with 2000+ other rigs, so since there was nothing we wanted to see this afternoon, we decided to go ahead and leave. A few rigs have already started filtering out, and we won’t be far behind.
We did have a couple of early seminars this morning that we wanted to attend so we headed over to the hall about 8:30 am, and then afterwards, we did one last pass thru the vendor area, picking up a few last things.
Then it was off to lunch at Cottage Inn, the little local place we found the other day, except, apparently the Cottage Inn isn’t open on Sunday. So after a quick rethink, we headed over to Mark’s Feed Store, a really good BBQ place we ate at last Tuesday and wanted to try again.
On the way we came across another of the Louisville horse mascots
Here’s the one we saw the other day.
Mark’s Feed Store was just as good as last time, I decided to try a cup of burgoo, a local stew/soup in the Irish/Mulligan/Brunswick family. It had beef, pork, and chicken in it, along with corn, peas, and potatoes. Very tasty.
We also got an order of HoneyWings. These are chicken wings fried really crispy and then coated in a honey glaze. Really,really good, too.
On the way home from Mark’s we stopped off at a Verizon Wireless Store to get another case and belt clip for my Blackberry Storm 2, and the PO to mail a letter.
Back at the Expo it took us about 45 minutes to get ready to leave, and by 2pm we were on the road. But not too far.
We went only about 38 miles north on I-65 to the Yogi Bear Campground in Scottsburg, IN. Tomorrow we’ve got a 270 mile day over to Vernon, IL to spend a few days with Jan’s sister, Debbie.
More tomorrow from IL…
Quote of the day:
"Marriages are made in heaven. But then again, so are thunder and lightning."
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The Rally – Day 3…
Today started out with another round of seminars and vendors. Jan went to one about “Cooking with a Microwave Convection Oven” while I perused the vendor exhibits some more
At noon we met up for more corn dogs and fries. We like corn dogs, what can I say. I also had a ear of fresh roasted corn that the people from Progressive Insurance were giving out for a $1 donation to their charity.
At 1pm while Jan attended a talk by Bradd & Hall RV Interior Renovators, while I spend some more time at the PacBrake booth talking about the problems with my unit.
I was looking at buying the PRXB PacBrake upgrade and installing it myself. This would save me $200, and I figured by replacing the entire unit, that would fix my non-functioning PacBrake..
It looked like an easy replacement. Just loosen the two clamps shown below and the unit should come right out.
The problem was that we couldn’t figure out which unit I needed. The metal tag in the photo above should have had the model number on it, but it didn’t. Only the serial number.
Finally they offered me a good deal on letting them install the unit. This way they could take all the different possible units over to our rig, and, after removing the old one, install the correct one.
I ask how long it would take, and they said “about an hour”. I said “Go for it”.
One thing I was interested in is shown in the graph below. Unlike my old unit (when it was working) and PacBrake competitors, the PRXB doesn’t not need high RPM’s to work well.
True to their word, 45 minutes after starting, the mechanic was done. I’m really looking forward to trying it tomorrow when we leave.
We’ll see.
About 4 pm we headed out for supper at one of our favorite BBQ places, Famous Dave’s BBQ. And as usual, we had enough left over to take home for later.
Leaving Famous Dave’s we stopped off at WalMart for a few things before heading home.
Then about 6pm we drove over to the concert hall to see Super Diamond, a very good Neal Diamond tribute group.
After a great show, we got back home by about 8:30 and were in for the night.
Tomorrow, after attending the morning events we’ll head out a little early. I’d rather not wait until tomorrow morning when 2000 rigs will try to all leave at once.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. – Scott Adams
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