Wow, another month has flown by in Texas! Thankfully the temperatures have moderated considerably -- in fact, the high today is only 59 degrees but that is an anomaly. We'll be back into the 70s and 80s tomorrow. It it perfect weather to do some remaining "outside" Max work, but rain is a deterrent at least for a few days. Thankfully our "before we hit the road again" TO DO list is finally getting shorter!
One big item accomplished is we have most of the annual doctor visits finished. This process seemed a little more stressful to me this fall, probably because of the threat of having a medical problem interrupt our travel plans. But so far so good :-) We are also making some progress with our golf game and visiting friends in the area.
The best news is that we think we have finally found our electrical "gremlin". Replacing just the water heater element did not fix things as we managed to throw breakers less than an hour after getting home from that repair -- so we spent a few weeks playing musical chairs with our wiring to try to remove possible causes. This exercise did not bear fruit, but Jeffrey gently poking a wire behind the water heater caused a big POP, a burning smell, and blown breakers both on the coach and at the outside pedestal. So back we go to the service place the next day and they pull out a clump of scorched wires that were hidden behind a cover -- all burned and with melted insulation that had clearly been unhappy for quite some time. Not sure how they missed seeing this at the last service appointment... grrrrrr
At any rate, we are all fixed up and hope this is the final item in the chain of events that caused so much havoc. Jeffrey is reluctant to install the new EMS until we are "sure", so we'll continue to run with the EMS disabled for a few more weeks and just manage our own power until we get back from west Texas.
West Texas? Yup! We are taking a side trip this weekend and driving Max (pulling Moby the car) to the Fort Davis area. We'll be part of a 5-day organized RV outing with 20 or so other RVs and will get to see all kinds of sights in that area -- McDonald Observatory, Marfa lights, etc. We are hoping the U.S. government opens back up by the time it is over as we want to visit Big Bend National Park for a few days before we head back to Georgetown. I promise my next post will have some pictures of this trip!
