Our RV Adventures

After lunch I got back on replacing my shower faucet now that I had a better cartridge puller. And pull it did.

Unfortunately when I finally got it to work, it pulled the inside guts and shaft out, leaving the outside of the cartridge stuck inside the valve body,  the part that was stuck to start with, still stuck. And no way  to grab hold to pull it out.

Bu after a couple of hours, breaking it out tiny piece by tiny piece so I didn’t scratch the inside of the faucet valve, it finally all came loose and came out.

So what I ended up with was this pile of parts. And luckily when I ran my finger around the inside of the valve I didn’t feel any scratches or grooves, so hopefully the way I had to get the cartridge out won’t cause any leaks with the new cartridge.

After I took a break for a while, I slathered the inside of the valve with silicone grease, and did the same for the cartridge itself. Then I lined it up correctly and slowly pushed it into the valve body until it was seated.

And finally I was able to get the retaining clip seated, a task that has been a problem in the past, but luckily not this time. So now it was time to do the leak test.

Since I still have the shore water turned off, I turned on the pump, and listened to it run for a few seconds as the system pressurized. And no leaks, so far.

Next was the important one, so I turned on the shower and watched. Turning it both to hot and cold, everything was leak-free. And after I buttoned everything up, and went outside to turn the shore water back on, I was done.

Time for a nap.

For dinner Jan heated up our leftover Sofia’s from yesterday, still delicious. Mexican is one of those foods, like Italian, that heats up just about as good as new.

DONâ€T BE FOOLED!

Recently we’ve received a couple of fake Facebook Friend Requests. One from an already-friend, and the other from a stranger. And I’ve found it very easy to figure out who’s who.

First off , the listing tells you if the person requesting friendship is friends with any of  your other friends. If not, my suspicions are alerted. But due to the nature of our blog, we do get friend requests from strangers.

So my next check is to click on the person’s name and look at the Facebook page itself. And what I usually find is . . .  Nothing. A couple of photos stolen from the real page, and that’s about it.

Then I click “Delete Requestâ€, and then “Mark As Spam.â€

And requests from friends are treated the same way, except that I already know that these are fake to start with.

Stay Vigilant!

Thought for the Day:

Why is it that the people who want to go naked in public are never the people I want to see naked?

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Since we were heading out about noon, I was up about 10am, just in time to shut down most of the rig’s electronics

The knock at the door was a power company guy here to replace our electric meter. When I ask whether it was bad in our favor. He said neither, but it was dying, so it have phoned (emailed) home so they could come and replace it.

I had already shut down the computer, the TV, and the Sat Receiver, so it only took him about 30 seconds for the changeout.

We headed out for Gila Bend about noon, with a quick stop for gas and breakfast sandwiches at Jack’s before we got out on US 60 and headed west and then south.

The 100 mile trip took us about two hours so we were pulling into the parking lot of Sofia’s Mexican Restaurant at 2pm.

We’ve been eating here at Sofia’s since our very first year, 2008, when we passed through on our way to Yuma and San Diego after leaving Nick’s Gypsy Rally in Casa Grande.

Jan got her usual Shrimp Burrito, the same thing she always has, and the reason we come here. But this time she also added an a la carte Chile Relleno.

I had the 3 Enchilada Combo, Cheese, Chicken, and Beef, and an a la carte Carne Asada Taco.

Great food, great service, and big enough portions that we had plenty to take home. The perfect trio.

After a great meal, we headed over to Holt’s Shell and RV Park, a place we’ve stayed many times passing through. Jan was looking for a T-shirt she thought had bought here in the past, but no luck.

But we did find a good source of dinosaurs, snakes, and Gila Monsters.

The dinosaurs go for about $3000 a piece, and the workmanship is amazing. Tackwelded togethter from sheet metal, the skin is textured and even shows the musculature of the body.

By now it was about 3:30 so we headed over to the other reason we came to Gila Bend, the local Elk’s Lodge so I could renew my membership. And then a few minutes later we were heading home, finally pulling in about 5:30.

Today a friend ask us where Jan got the Padded Bowl Holders that we talked about in the blog recently,

and wanted to know where we got them.

Jan bought them at the recent Escapade from Mac The Fire Guy’s wife, and you can contact him at mac@macthefireguy.com if you would like to purchase them.

Check’em out.

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.†― Robert Bloch

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