Let the Adventures Begin ...

... hey, wait a minute! We haven't even left yet! Yep, that's right. Stuff happens even before we're leaving.

As any good RV'er knows, before departing on a trip, especially if you haven't been out in a few months, you check your levels, tanks, etc, and then load up the stuff that lives at home when you are not traveling. Soooo, after having tires checked at Ray's Goodyear and other RV stuff checked at Camping World, we brought Wolf home from his den to load some odds and ends.

So far, so good. The process includes prepping the toilet with a bit of water and adding what I refer to as toilet meds, tablets that you drop in to the black water holding tank through the toilet to help keep it working and more importantly, odor free. Geoffrey went to do this and discovered the toilet was broken, it wouldn't flush! A rather critical item on the road.

So we abandoned most of the rest of our loading plans and headed off for our friends at Camping World ... again! Of course, this involved backing out of the driveway. The backing up path having changed a little since we weren't going to share the driveway with a car, Geoff had pulled up more in the middle of it. Between that and worrying about hitting the recycling containers set out for the recycling trucks to pick up, he some how managed to smash an across the street neighbors mailbox, right off its post even. Wish I'd gotten a photo of that mailbox, it was definitely smooshed!

Anyway, this wasn't fixing the toilet so after putting the poor smooshed mailbox and a note on the neighbor's porch, off we went for Camping World, stopping at Wolf's Den to pick up the car which Geoff had left there when he brought Wolf home. The guys at Camping World said they would get it taken care of the next day. And, if you think it was that easy, think again!

The next afternoon, off we headed to Camping World to check on how they were doing with poor Wolf's plumbing. They were just getting started on it so we settled in to the lounge area and waited. Soon our apologetic service man came out to talk to us and it was some sort of interior hookup problem and we had two choices, replace the toilet which they should have in stock, or order the parts needed for a problem requiring considerable labor. The cost factors being about the same thanks to what the repair labor would run, we voted for the replacement which would be faster anyway.

In the meantime we had called around to find the guy that fixes the mailboxes here in our development and luckily he was able to get it fixed for our neighbor the very next day! This little incident has definitely added to our desire to some how resolve the rear view problem but so far research has not found any good solution so we persist dealing with the poor visibility in the rear view system that came with Wolf. Definitely the eye in the back of his head needs help!

With a few days to go we have Wolf back in his den and a few days to go before heading to Georgia. Maybe we can make it through a week long trip without more adventures? I don't think we should hold our breath on that one.