Get Stumped . . .
Since we didn’t unhook last night, we pulled out of the Root 66 RV Park about 8:30am after a breakfast of coffee, pizza, and half a cupcake each. We’ll lose an hour this morning on our 216 mile run to Albuquerque since we’ll be coming into the Mountain Time Zone from Arizona Time. Since Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Savings Time (except for the Indian Reservations, for some reason), during DST they’re the same as Pacific Time.
As I said yesterday, Root 66 RV Park is a nice little stay-1-night park about 10 miles east of Holbrook with 50 FHU sites for $20 PPA.
And you can even buy some petrified wood,
or even a whole stump.
But it does have a really nice view.
The only downside is the Verizon service. Most of the night I was alternating between 3G and 1X.
1X!
As I indicated yesterday, I tested my theory on my genset/transfer switch problem by starting up the genset before I disconnected shore power. And the transfer switch worked perfectly. So I went outside, disconnected shore power, and got ready to pull out.
But as my genset is wont to do sometimes when it’s cold, it stopped after about a minute. And when I restarted it, the transfer switch did not kick in. So this time as another test, I went back to the bedroom, lifted the bed, removed the cover on the transfer switch, and pressed down on the generator contactor.
And the contactor latched right up and started feeding power to the coach.
Everything worked fine for a couple of hours until the generator stopped again. But this time I think I might have reached the low fuel point on the tank feed. With this new diesel tank and sender unit I’m not exactly sure where the cut-off point is on the gauge. But luckily the temperature never got out of the 70’s along the way, with the windows open and fans going, it stayed about 75 degrees in the coach. Very nice.
We pulled into the Enchanted Trails RV Park a few miles west of Albuquerque about 2pm, and got parked and set up. Like Root 66, this park is also a $20 50 amp FHU PPA park, but much nicer than Root 66. And even better, this park has a really strong, really fast Wi-Fi system, and I’ve got 5 bars of 4G on my phone. Nice,.
About 3:30 we headed out to have dinner at La Salita, a place that Nick and Terry Russell had recommended.
As we were heading into Albuquerque, we noticed a lot of black clouds to the north, accompanied to some really high winds. In fact this guy in the RV in front of us may have wished he’d delayed his trip.
When we got to La Salita, we found that they didn’t reopen for dinner until 5pm. So checking Google, we found that the Golden Corral Nick had also highly recommended was only about a mile away, so off we went.
And Nick was right again, with this being one of the best Golden Corral’s we’ve ever eaten out.
Not sure yet what’s on tomorrow’s schedule, but I’m sure we’ll have fun.
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Thought for the Day:
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dreams.” – Vincent van Gogh
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