Category: Repairs

Installing More Solar On Our Outdoors RV Travel Trailer

August 11, 2019

Installing More Solar In My Ooutdoord RV Project Prep Parts Ordered Installation Results  Project Prep Today I doubled my solar wattage to 340 watts. That felt like it was right up there with, “Today, I made fire.”  Maybe not quite, but it sure did feel good.  I’ll admit that I don’t understand everything solar but this was…

When There Is No Emergency Room, But You Know You Need One!

July 3, 2018

Ker-thump.  I was off the bed, scooping Jack up from the cement floor in less than a heartbeat. Even though he’s a monkey, Jack was in a little bit too much of a hurry to climb the ladder to the top bunk.  Evie, who was already on the top bed, later told us, “I saw…

Fire In The Hole!

June 19, 2017

We’re within days of reaching home so I was waxing philosophic about our year.  Specifically, I’ve been having fun reliving the challenges we’ve had. We had engine trouble (that time when the alternator died and I thought we were going to, too, in Houston), brake trouble (when they caught on fire in Vermont), overheating issues (in…

One More Call to Good Sam

June 17, 2017

What did I not get to see that’s still on the list?  Oh, I have A LOT answers to that (I’ll start with all of Washington, Oregon and Idaho) but here’s one – the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY.  If we hadn’t arrived so late, I would have insisted we pop over to see…

I love gold stars!

May 7, 2017

DISCLAIMER: I may make a commission off of the links on this page. Total cost of the repairs in Watsonville: $800 and some change.  I think it was $350 for parts and the rest was labor.  They replaced the solenoid in the air compressor and fixed some lines that were sheered off due to improper…