Shipshewana, IN

Our trailer service at Paul & Kay Cross's Indiana Interstate Enterprise is complete.  We've moved over to Shipshewana to await for better weather before moving on up to Voyageurs and to test out the Pinnacle washer/dryer combo.  We had one surprise as they found we'd cut one of the brake lines on the trailer.  That explains the poor trailer brake performance during a pull-test at Fredericksburg.  Anyway, it's all repaired now.   We've also gotten new shower fixture handles and a new hose for the shower head to replace the old rusty handles and the old, leaking hose.  We've also gotten cookies at Sturgis, MI and hot, soft pretzels here in Shipshewana.  Good food, but bad for diets!  Donna's hit the local knit shop, too.

Unfortunately, the Pinnacle test didn't take long.  The heating element quit working about 10 minutes into the first dry cycle.  We'll go back to Indiana Interstate Enterprise in the morning to have the Pinnacle unit removed.  After carrying the dead Splendid combo washer/dryer up here, we're not in the mood to continue to tote a 160 lbs of dead appliance around for the next 5 months.  Compared to the support we got from Splendide, the Pinnacle support just doesn't appear to be there.  The Pinnacle call center says they'll Google someone and have them meet us there to look at the unit when we get there. (You got it - Pinnacle is "Googling" for a repair facility to help us.  When our Splendide combo quit, Splendide gave us business names, people's names and phone numbers to call to help.  Pinnacle "Googles".)  Too bad there's no Splendide units available, or we'd have bought a new one in the first place.

Kay Cross has talked to the dealer who sold us the Pinnacle about taking it back or repairing it.  That dealer said to go through Pinnacle.  Maybe Pinnacle can just "Google" us a trash dump to leave the unit at tomorrow. We may get lucky and find that Paul has a tech that can fix it quickly.  Doubt it, though.

In other news, weather-wise we've been way more fortunate than most of the eastern half of the U.S.  Cloudy, windy, and showers has been our weather.  Looks like it'll break for the weekend.  We may continue on to Voyageurs tomorrow depending on what happens with the washer/dryer or just stay here one more day.  It all just depends.  We've got some slack in the schedule, but it's beginning to get low.

So that's our week.  Hope yours is going good.  Later, David