Daily Archives: July 6, 2015
So-so Food and Bad Coffee . . .
We pulled out of our site a little after 9am, with Jan following in the truck. Our final destination for today was Sun Valley, AZ. about 160 miles away. But right now we were heading for the Camp Verde shopping center parking lot.
We were leaving the rig while we drove back up the road about a mile to have what unfortunately turned out to be a so-so breakfast at the Denny’s.
So-so service, so-so food, and really bad coffee. So bad that I only drank about 1/4 of mine, and I think Jan even less. I actually tried to redeem the coffee situation as we left by walking right next door to the Starbuck’s. But apparently the word was out about the bad coffee at Denny’s, and there was a line almost out the door. So no coffee for me today. At least it will be my coffee tomorrow morning.
Coming back to the rig, we stopped off at the Maverik station to top off the truck before parking behind the rig to get hooked up. I had left the fans running and a couple of windows open while we were gone, so it was still nice inside.
But we figured we’d need the AC’s today so I started up the generator to warm up while I hooked up the truck. And as I was finishing up, I heard the generator doing its speeding up and slowing down thing that it did when it didn’t work when we left Prescott a couple of weeks ago. So I was not surprised to find no power to the coach when I came back in.
Since it was now about 11am, the time I wanted to be on the road, we just went with the fans and windows.
Regular readers will be remember that I tested the generator a few days after we got to Verde Valley from Prescott, and everything worked fine, so I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working now.
As we drove along I was thinking about the problem. Why did it not work in Prescott, then it did work in Verde Valley, and then it didn’t work today? After some further mulling, the only differing factor I could think of was that the two times it didn’t work, we were NOT plugged into the shore power when I started the generator. But at Verde Valley, when it worked, we were plugged in.
So tomorrow I’ll try starting the generator before I unhook shore power and see what happens. If it now works, then I’ll get on the phone with my transfer switch’s manufacturer and see what’s up. If that does work, at least I’ve got a workaround until I get a permanent fix.
We pulled into the Root 66 RV Park in Sun Valley about 3pm and were quickly pointed to our $20 FHU pull-thru site. This is not a destination park. It’s a two minutes off the Interstate to the spend the night, park.
Oh, and it’s also a petrified wood store.
Tomorrow we’ve got a 216 mile run to Albuquerque where we’ll stay for a couple days before moving on to Amarillo.
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Thought for the Day:
“Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.” — Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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