Monday, October 1st, 2018…... Kind of a slow day for both of us. We didn’t have
too much planned. I took off to go to Albany to check on some leashes from
Dollar General. Turns out there are no Dollar General stores in Albany but I
did stop at Wheeler Dealer and bought a couple of new dog collars for the
monster mutt. Then I headed off to Sweet Home to the Dollar General there. We
had found and bought a couple of large-dog leashes at DG to use as spares and
to have in the cars just in case. These are the retractable type and have
ribbon type material rather than a cord. They were only $7.00 and we bought
them out (2) before so I wanted to check other stores. The Sweet Home store had
one and I bought it, so we are good for now. The rest of the day we
straightened up the house and vacuumed and then called it a day.
Tuesday,
October 2nd, 2018…... After walking Rylee, I took a trip
out to get breakfast/coffee/tea and then went out to prep the motorhome for my
trip tomorrow. Cherrelyn, our ‘adopted daughter’ has finally made plans to
come up to visit all of us and she arrived today. She shuttled down from
Portland and Penny went to pick her up. They went to Penny’s to get settled in
and then came over for dinner. We gave her the tour and ate a nice meal. After
a nice visit they headed off and I finished getting the motorhome out and the
tow car hooked up. I plan on leaving early, early tomorrow morning.
Wednesday, October 3rd,
2018…... I got up at 4:00am and got myself
ready and took off about 5:00am and headed north. My appointment today was at
Laurelhurst Distributors to have the motorhome refrigerator tested to confirm
that I needed a new one or not. The drive was ok and I got there about 7:20am
(they opened at 8:00am) and got parked and unhooked the Honda. They immediately
moved it in and went to work on it. They reset the fault codes and got it
running. And it didn’t trip to the fault code. Yaay! Next up was to test the
actual cooling ability so they hooked up thermostats to track the temps. I had
to wait that out so I took off and went to McDonald's to eat breakfast and have
some coffee. I drove around a bit and checked out the area. This is the Mt.
Tabor district of Portland. It is actually a fairly high hilly area, just east
of the city. Laurelhurst Dist. was established in the mid 80s and they made the
wrong choice for an rv shop. The streets are tiny and Burnside St. is also a
narrow street but it runs 20 miles or more east/west so it’s always busy. Ed,
the owner said he didn’t plan on working on rvs, they just were a distribution
center, but evolved into more service than they wanted. It was tight getting in
and I needed to find an exit route to get back to the I-84 when I left to go
home. More on the tightness of these streets later…. I went back and checked on
the status. Still working and it needs more time. So, I took off again. This
time I headed north and crossed the Columbia River and into Washington. I drove
around a bit and then worked my way back. When I got back, there was another
motorhome next to me with huge damage to the right side. Turns out he was
coming in for something else and got hit by a car on the tight streets.
Probably three grand in repairs! I went
and checked in with Chuck, the service tech, who gave me the news. It wasn’t
cooling at all! The cooling unit would need to be replaced. He also said they
didn’t have one. I was stunned! I said Ed
made it clear he would get me taken care of in short time. When we spoke on the
phone weeks ago, he asked me to stay the night because it had to run for 24
hours plus he didn’t have security for the coaches on the lot. He wanted me in
and out asap. I only planned on being
there one night. So, they agreed to go through another distributor (and pay
their higher price) to get the unit delivered tomorrow. Either way, I had to
stay tonight. I got everything set up
and then took off for dinner (Wendy’s)
and then drove around some more and then came back and settled in for the
night. I was able to get my Directv dish up and going so I watched tv until
bedtime.
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