Well! Today we had problems - somewhere on the I-45, around noon, enroute from Tallahassee we were waved down by a passing motorist. We pulled over to the shoulder and found our exhaust dragging on the ground. No worries, Kiwi ingenuity and all that - strapped it back up again (sorry about the burn on your arm Brad) and on our way.again. Except... as we had pulled right over and were on a slant and only had 1/3 tank of diesel and the fuel pick us is on the high side, we only moved a few feet before we stopped again, no fuel feeding. No worries, now we were level again, so all good. Except... we didn't know how to bleed the fuel lines so couldn't start again. So we called Coach Net and to cut a very long story short, after three hours on the side of the Interstate and many phone calls back and forth we managed to google the relevant info and get started again ourselves, without Coachnet's best efforts which were rather tardy at best and pretty disappointing overall. Glad we got the $60/month data plan with 5 GB of data for the main phone!
Arrived at the Lazy Days RV Resort at 7pm - in a sudden rainstorm and called it a night. Although it has a slightly corny name. it is lovely resort, they even have happy hour - and right next door is the Lazy Days Monaco Coach Service Centre and we are booked in for the repairs at 8.30am in the morning. It is an absolutely huge operation, they use golf carts to get around the property,
Saturday, Tampa (beautiful clear sunny blue sky day)
Delivered the coach for repair to the exhaust brackets - added 6 new tires, a couple new chassis batteries, a generator oil change and filters etc, etc. They can do it all today for us to collect by 5pm. Cash passport is decidedly lighter after the just shy of $5k account!! We decided to grab a rental car for a few days and do some shopping today (cheap shopping now) and Florida sightseeing for the next three days before we head over to Orlando in the coach. Looking forward to Miami tomorrow : )
What a crazy day - all part of the adventure! Glad you made it to Tampa. :)
ReplyDeletebit like owning a boat, small problems escalate quickly. good to see the kiwi can do fix it.
ReplyDeleteKeep the blogs coming—dramas already—makes for interesting (non) work stories! Signed, Michelle, Sue, Grahame.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an experience!
ReplyDeleteReminds me when Barry, Ian and myself ran out of Diesel in Aussie outback, lots of phone calls and ended up fixing it ourselves...