Catchin' Up.....

It's only been 20 days since we left Rahway, NJ and our previous assignment but the days have sure flown by. We've been busy squeezing in things that we've wanted to see and do, visit with our friends in the area and get some things done on the rig before returning to work.

On Monday we went to Fort Myers to go to a women's resort there that I had visited many years ago, when it was just being developed. My...how it has changed since I last saw it ! When I last visited, there were a couple of houses there.....a clubhouse and lots of streets. Now 13 years after it was started, it is almost full. There are just a handful of lots that are still empty. The neat thing is that out of 278 total lots, about 70 them are RV lots. Some lots have RV ports on them or are just the concrete drive and pad. If someone buys an RV lot, they can choose at some point to have a small house built on it. The facilities are gorgeous and we had a great time looking around. It looks like a great place to retire to :)

Our friend, Jan has had a really bad cold for the last week and a half so we have been helping her with errands and took her to the doctor on Tuesday. She is now on an antibiotic so we're hoping that she will be on the mend very shortly.

Yesterday we hung out here, around the campground, and waited for the RV tech to arrive. He came mid afternoon. The good news is that he resolved two of our issues in pretty short order....The bad news is the other two issues are things he couldn't tackle here so we need to take the rig elsewhere to get them fixed. When he was diagnosing the grey valve, he discovered that there are still problems with the black tank. If you recall we spent a fortune, in July, having a new tank put in by Settle's RV in Virginia. Total botch job from the beginning.....don't know why this dealership even has a service dept. They had to call in a plumber to help them with the piping to the tank and based on what the RV tech found, there is a leak around the top of the tank....probably in the area that had difficulty. Gives us a warm fuzzy feeling to revisit this same issue AGAIN ! This time it needs to be resolved cause when you're a full-timer, your RV is your house and there can't be major problems with it while traveling. We went to an RV repair shop today that a friend of ours recommended. She takes her rig there and wouldn't trust it to anyone else. They seemed very knowledgeable and accommodating. We can stay on-site while the repair is being done. We'll take it in next Wednesday to "Git R Done"....

Today we got together with our Amazon buddies, Carolyn and Roy. They are staying nearby, in Crystal River, and it was great to sit and chat about work at Amazon, family and future plans. We want to get together again with them before we leave the area. I hope we'll make it our "January tradition"....go south for some W & R (warmth and relaxation), see our RV'ing friends and rejevenate before returning to work. Sounds like a wonderful prescription to me and just what the doctor ordered !

Hitting The Road Soon....

Today seemed to go by quickly at work. Since we got word yesterday of the sale of three other units near us, more info has come out about who will come here. I guess it's a good thing that my three months of interviewing didn't turn up anyone sooner cause we wouldn't be a viable location to transfer one of the displaced managers from the other units. One of the displaced couples came to our site this morning and looked around. We heard this afternoon that the woman will come here with her boyfriend and her husband (or soon to be ex) will go to another one of our sites needing a manager. Hmmm...strange outcome but hey, I guess it works for someone. So, I think that means that we will be done here in short order. No one has told us yet. Perhaps as of Saturday....maybe in another week. I suppose someone might tell us by the end of the week. If not, I'll ask since we'd like to know what is next for us.

We have several things that we need to get worked on in our rig and that takes time to set up and plan for. Since it's our home, it's not like you just drop it off and pick it up when the work is done...This time we'll make sure that whoever we take it to is familiar and willing to go through our extended service contract provider for the repairs. We aren't going to get ripped off like we did before with Settle's RV dealership, who wouldn't open a claim on our repairs and we ended up eating the whole cost of the repair. Nope, not this time. One of the things that needs to be worked on is an item that Settle's never addressed when we took our rig to them.

So we're finishing up odds and ends here...waiting to here when we ship out and if there is another pressing assignment. More to come....

Repairs Underway....

This morning we loaded up and hit the road for Settle's RV and Truck in Amissville, VA so they could start the repair on our RV. It was just a little over an hour to get there from the campground. Linda, Boomer and I settled in out front while they checked things out.
Didn't take long to find the source of the leak. There are two leaks....one is around the outlet pipe where it connects to the tank itself. If you enlarge this picture, look at the yellow adhesive and you'll see the crack.The other leak is in the corner of the tank. It's not a hairline crack but a pretty good sized tear in the corner. You can see it really well in this picture. The big surprise when the guys removed the underbelly was that the straps, that should be holding the grey water tank, had both broken. There were only two of them, which doesn't sound like enough for the amount of weight these tanks carry. The guys said the only thing holding the grey tank in place was the lip on the metal support bracket. Scary, huh ? They plan on putting more straps on both tanks to make sure they are firmly in place. They have ordered a new black tank and the related parts but it doesn't sound like it will arrive till end of next week. In the meantime, Linda and I drove up to Chambersburg, PA and are staying at her family homestead. Her niece, who rents the house, is currently in Florida on vacation and won't be back till next week.

We are on hold for new assignments till our rig gets fixed. We purchased a service contract for our rig a short while ago so now we'll get to see how good it is. We have a $50 deductible and the rest of the repair should be covered by the contract. All of our training is done now so our next assignment will let us put all of this training to work. Guess we'll have to wait a week before that can happen so we'll just hang out here, in Chambersburg, till the repairs are done.