sbwertz
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I just got back from a 6000 mile road trip in my little Rialta motorhome. To begin with, rodents of some sort got under the hood and ate the wires to my cruise control. Another Rialta owner in New Mexico said he had fixed the problem before, and knew where the wires were supposed to connect, so I started my trip with a trip to NM. He had me fixed up in about half an hour. (My local mechanic had no idea where the other end of the wires were, since they had been chewed off up inside one of the wire wraps.)
I then continued on to OK where I spent a week visiting with my brother. While there I went to visit an old friend who assured me her cough was not contagious, and was just a lingering cough after having double pneumonia. She was wrong.
I started on to CT on the 3rd of July. On the morning of the 4th, I woke up with a cough and a sore throat. Early that morning, just outside of Louisville KY, I was caught up in a multi car chain reaction accident in a heavy rainstorm. My motorhome now need a nose job. Fortunately it was all just body work/cosmetic damage. Only problem was that the hood was jammed on to the windshield wipers and it was raining cats and dogs. I sat on the side of the freeway for 8 hours while they tried to find a flatbed wrecker willing to go out on a holiday to rescue me. My rig was driveable, but without wipers, I couldn't see. Finally a local "mom and pop" RV repair shop came out and used a crowbar to pry the hood off the wipers so I could follow them back to their shop, where they set me up with electricity and water for the night so I could run the AC. Next day they got the hood open and discovered that the upper radiator bracket had been pushed back just enough for the fan to touch a water line. They repaired the line and tied it back out of harm's way, strapped down the hood, and sent me on my way. By now I'm coughing up green gorp and running a fever.
I got to CT a day late, and went to a local urgent care. Acute bacterial bronchitis, sinus infection and conjunctivitis. It took three different antibiotics to get the infection knocked down.
I took my new laser engraver with me, and my grandsons (age 11 and 15) installed it and used it all the time I was there. I never did get a chance to use it myself.
Two weeks later, I was marginally fit to head for home, after cancelling the third planned stop in Colorado. I made it home in 5 days...550 miles a day...and spent the next three days recovering from the trip.
Now I'm trying to find parts for a 1997 Eurovan to replace the hood, upper and lower grill, bumper and upper radiator support on my motorhome. She has her nose seriously out of joint!
I then continued on to OK where I spent a week visiting with my brother. While there I went to visit an old friend who assured me her cough was not contagious, and was just a lingering cough after having double pneumonia. She was wrong.
I started on to CT on the 3rd of July. On the morning of the 4th, I woke up with a cough and a sore throat. Early that morning, just outside of Louisville KY, I was caught up in a multi car chain reaction accident in a heavy rainstorm. My motorhome now need a nose job. Fortunately it was all just body work/cosmetic damage. Only problem was that the hood was jammed on to the windshield wipers and it was raining cats and dogs. I sat on the side of the freeway for 8 hours while they tried to find a flatbed wrecker willing to go out on a holiday to rescue me. My rig was driveable, but without wipers, I couldn't see. Finally a local "mom and pop" RV repair shop came out and used a crowbar to pry the hood off the wipers so I could follow them back to their shop, where they set me up with electricity and water for the night so I could run the AC. Next day they got the hood open and discovered that the upper radiator bracket had been pushed back just enough for the fan to touch a water line. They repaired the line and tied it back out of harm's way, strapped down the hood, and sent me on my way. By now I'm coughing up green gorp and running a fever.
I got to CT a day late, and went to a local urgent care. Acute bacterial bronchitis, sinus infection and conjunctivitis. It took three different antibiotics to get the infection knocked down.
I took my new laser engraver with me, and my grandsons (age 11 and 15) installed it and used it all the time I was there. I never did get a chance to use it myself.
Two weeks later, I was marginally fit to head for home, after cancelling the third planned stop in Colorado. I made it home in 5 days...550 miles a day...and spent the next three days recovering from the trip.
Now I'm trying to find parts for a 1997 Eurovan to replace the hood, upper and lower grill, bumper and upper radiator support on my motorhome. She has her nose seriously out of joint!
