10 September 2012

Spent the day stocking up on Ben & Jerry’s (plus other victuals) and doing small projects that kept me close to the RV in hopes that Santa the UPS delivery truck soon would be there. Applied a coat of Thompson’s Waterseal to the first section of the walkway, whose deck boards were salvaged from a 20+ year old patio deck in Virginia.  Them boards were thirsty; within an hour they were totally dry again!  The UPS truck finally showed up at 4:22 pm; Delores and I were on the road at 4:24, arriving at Steve’s place, 100 miles later and with a $200 stop for gas, at the stroke of 7 o’clock. The washboard on the Pekin Brook Road in Calais surely knocked most of the rust off Delores’ undercarriage!  You were wondering, perhaps, what critical RV system was going to fail next? Answer: the hydraulics, which activates the leveling jacks and makes the slideout go out and in.  Fortunately, the spot Steve and I had picked to park Delores was reasonably level, but still…