What a day!! Centreville, VA, Nov 7, 2011

This morning before breakfast, I noticed our Norcold frig light was not on, hummm, oh no, not that problem again.  Bob went out and checked the back of the frig, and saw no red light of death. 

So now what?  He tried to bypass the recall module,  it tested okay, but the frig did not come on.  I checked online for Norcold authorized service centers, found one in Manassas just about 10 miles away.  Called them and they said it might be a fuse, and to come in anytime. But first, we needed to get fuel, we were on fumes.  On Saturday night Paul and Marti had shown us a very handy fuel station, Fannon Petroleum Services, just a few miles away.  Both of us were praying we could make the station, and we did!!  It did take 87 gallons (holds 100), nice price too at $3.74 per gallon, other stations were $4.05/gallon.

Here we are at Restless Wheels RV.  Even though we arrived at noon, it only took them about 20 minutes to diagnose and temporarily fix our problem.  The problem was a failed recall module, they bypassed it, so now we have a working frig.  Somewhere down the road we will need to get the failed module replaced.  They indicated that Norcold is now on the sixth revision of this module, as they all keep failing.

Now, back to the Bull Run Regional Park, where we had already paid for tonight’s lodging, as we are headed south tomorrow.

When Bob plugged in our power, the 50 amp plug would not work, it had just a few hours ago?  So we switched to the 30 amp and that one worked fine.

Then, I have to laugh, Bob was hooking up the water so I could do some laundry and he got an early shower.  The spigot was a little different and he had to get our pipe wrench out and loosen up the part you needed to pull down so water flowed through our hose and not where it is flowing in the photo.

We do think Murphy (Murphy’s Law) was messing with us today and do hope he has had enough!!  We sure have!!

Getting repairs done in Elkhart, Sept 12-13, 2011

Well, our time in Copper Harbor, MI was cut short by a not cold Norcold.  Our frig died, red light on the recall sensor and the yellow stray of ammonia smelling stuff at the back of the unit.  So we took off, after icing down what we could, on Sat and Sun (10th and 11th) driving 643 miles to Elkhart IN, the RV mecca of America. 

If you want more detail of our wonderful time in Copper Harbor, check our Bob’s blog.  He also talks more about our very timely Norcold frig replaced cooling unit.  We sure lucked out with this one.

We are currently parked at Duncan RV in Elkhart getting some items taken care of:  slide weather stripping replaced, slide topper repaired, front door glitch with opening fixed, slide adjusted, MCD blind adjustment, and generator cover adjusted.

After running  some errands this morning and early afternoon, we headed back to the lounge at Duncan RV to wait until our RV was ready.  Soon a lady came in and spoke to me, called me Linda, hummm, who does that.  Well it was a fellow blog reader Marie.  She and her husband were in the area getting some work done also and she tracked us down.

We had a great visit, left with plans to meet for breakfast on Thursday morning.  Gotta love the world of blogging.

To Hondo, Norcold Recall, and meeting new friends, Feb 24, 2011

On Wednesday we left Retama Village temporarily, we will be back in early March.  About six weeks ago we had made arrangements for Matthews RV Repair to perform our Norcold recall, so when we arrived at the Lone Star Corral Escapees Park in Hondo, where Murphy and Lisa of Matthews RV Repair lives, the recall kit was waiting for us.  Thursday afternoon the recall repair was performed.

This is the part they installed, a high temperature sensor.

While at the park, we also met some blog friends who are currently the managers at the Lone Star Corral RV Park.  Ron and Ali just arrived a week ago, so our timing to get to meet them was perfect.

They joined us for dinner, we had a great time getting to know them better. Even found out that Ali grew up just a few miles from where we lived near Sacramento.  We also had the same design on our travel (business) cards, had a good laugh on that one.