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Day 23  5/24/18

It has been a busy day.  I forgot to mention that our front tongue jack quit working two days ago.  I do have a backup manual handle which is a son of a gun to work with.  About 200 turns to lift off the ball and another 200 turns to lower the front so the floor is level.  I contacted Lance who manufactured our trailer and they informed me that I had to contact Lippert who made the jack for a warranty replacement.  In the mean time, we are in the middle of nowhere trying to get service.  To make a long story short we contacted a Lippert dealer at our next stop in two days.  They of course did not have a replacement but could order one from Seattle.  I asked them to order it and I recontacted Lippert and they said they would pay for parts and labor.  Hurray!!  I did not mention that when we were still in Canada the local dealer would be happy to sell and install one for about $400.  No Thanks!!  We pulled in today to Great Falls, MT where the dealer had ordered a jack, contacted Lippert and got the go ahead to replace it including the labor.  Whew..  That done we found the campground and I set the trailer up for Sue and Gracie.  Now to solve another problem.  I have a LG pad from T-Mobile.  I have been getting error messages lately that I am running out of memory.  Me or the tablet?  Seems the tablet only about a year old has limited Rom memory.  However for a mere $240 I could get the latest version with twice the memory.  Didn't really have a choice so went to the local T-Mobile store in Great Falls, and spent about 2 hours while they configured my new tablet and transferred all of my data.  Now it is 5:30 and I still need to market.  Off to a very nice market and then back to the trailer.  Uh Oh!!  Passed a semi-automatic car wash.  Now we have been traveling about one month in rain, mud, dust, etc. and the car looks like a beater from East L.A.  So a detour to the car wash where I am handed a wet rag.  What is this for?  Was my question.  Well, that is so you can dust the inside and then you can vacuum your car, by yourself.  Only $10.  Well I couldn't stand driving the heap as it was so did the car wash thing, and Lo and Behold, I can see out the windshield again.  All the gas stations for the last month, and there have been many, are all self service.  Now I never took windshield cleaning in high school so I am not much of an expert.  Our windshield had been a graveyard for thousands of bugs.  Finally, gone.  Life is good.

So, if you have read all of the above, you are all up to date.  We have a new LG tablet, a new tongue jack, clean windows, it doesn't get much better that this.  Unfortunately we are back to having internet and we have caught up with the clown in the White House.  When oh when will this nightmare end?

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  1. Carol JoMay 25, 2018 at 8:40 PM

    Glad All is fixed. Gary says there was a recall on your jack.

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