Happy Thanksgiving!

Warmer times - at Flying Goose RV Park near Fairmont, MN

Happy Thanksgiving!

We fine & remain parked near B'ham, AL.  Suppose to be a big dinner at Dad & Anna's house today as Dean, Debbie, the grand kids & Donna & I invade the place for a few hours.

It's cold here this morning.  I woke up during the night & checked on the temps.  The outdoor thermometer read 21* F.  We knew it'd get cold, so we removed all the water hoses last night.  But I never expected that the RV park's water faucet would freeze as they're well insulated.    Should have let them drip a little.  Otherwise, we'd planned ahead and filled the freshwater tank Tuesday just in case.

Only news this week is that after 103,000 miles the truck got sick Monday.  Knew this day would come and other than just an inconvenience, it picked a good spot to get sick.  Most importantly, it didn't leave us stuck on the side of the road.  The inconvenience is that it's going to take a week to get anyone to look at it.  To some people that's no big deal, but to me I want to know when things are going to be done, what reservations need to be changed, what appointments to cancel, letting the RV park where we're parked know how long we need to stay, etc.

What happened?  Well, the first thing we noticed is that we couldn't set the cruise control.  A mile or two down the road we realized the truck wouldn't downshift.  I'm telling people we didn't build boost, but the drivability problem was more like a two-speed automatic transmission that didn't have a passing gear.  Not sure our issue is a turbo problem or just the result of a module going bad on the transmission, a bad wiring harness, a blown fuse (again), or what.  Whatever it is, it won't pull the trailer in it's current condition.

Anyway, we hoping they get to it tomorrow, but we're being told it's probably next week.  And we continue to guess on what we need to tell people.

That's it from here.  Have a great Turkey Day!  David