This morning we’re waiting at the local Mercedes dealership in Mansfield Ohio, the Mansfield Motor Group, awaiting a diagnosis and repair of our 2008 Winnebago View. We were up at 6:30, had breakfast, put everything together for getting on the road and went to the dump station so we’d travel light. It was freezing last night. There was frost everywhere and the connector to the discharge end of the dump hose apparently wasn’t on tight enough. Oops, a shitty start to the morning. Cleaned everything up, and were off to the repair shop. We made it there on time, talked to the service manager, Jason Resendez, who said he would do his best. Our repair appointment is at 3PM, and we’re hoping to get in earlier. Continue reading
Author Archives: Bob Kelly
Stationary Camping
We’ve been in Virginia celebrating the arrival of our first grandson. Not wanting to upset the balance of family life, we made arrangements for a car to be available and have been staying at the same site for over two weeks at this point. I’ve never done this before, and It’s been quite an adjustment. We’ve had the same neighbor this whole time, and we look forward to seeing him periodically. We have water and electricity at the site, and have been careful of our usage of water, so we’ve only been to the dump station once, mostly then because we had the time and I wanted to take care of it. Continue reading
Great Western Wines
How decadent was the night before? We turned on the AC and watched Short Circuit 2 on the TV, drank wine and ate nuts. No popcorn on the menu, but it’s just because no one thought of it. Megan slept in the RV again, and we buttoned everything up and left the AC on figuring that we would have a very comfortable night. I’m of the age where I travel occasionally in the middle of the night, and I gave no thought to the fact that the AC never cycled all night long. About 8:30 AM we got up, it’s vacation of course, and we saw/heard nothing from the brother or nieces side of the family. Something seemed different, so I checked the outside temperature. 57 degrees! Just a little chilly. I decided that we’d turn the heater on, as the coach was 64 degrees, and cook breakfast inside. Home fries, toast, coffee, tea, OJ, sausages and eggs any style you wanted. The best breakfast in Watkins Glen that morning, if I do say so. Continue reading
US Air Force Museum – Dayton
Air conditioning can make all the difference in the world on a hot muggy night. We both slept like champs. We awoke early and attributed it to sleeping in the cool for the first time in a while. In truth, it was because we set some of the clocks in the RV to CST and were back in Eastern DST. It’s called vacation, so oh well. Continue reading
Mammoth Cave, then on to Ohio
Last night was a beast. We went to sleep at about 9:30 CST which made it late for us at 10:30 EST. The air-conditioning in the RV made it tolerable and I, always the optimist, figured that as the outside temperature dropped, and the inside temperature rose, we would have the lower humidity on our side. Put another check in the wrong column. At midnight it was 82 in the RV with not a breath of air. I opened all the windows and vents and the temperature dropped to 81 and the humidity went up. We switched from the upper bunk to the lower where I looked like a 12” long wurst in an 8” roll. I drank water so I could sweat better and we laid there and roasted all night long. We would have moved outside where we had a better option for catching a breeze but I didn’t; want to set up a free buffet for the bugs, so we laid there and cooked. Continue reading