June 11, 2024
Today is the day we go to Conway and pick up our RV. We have a 10:45AM appointment at Discount Tire to have our tires rotated and balanced. The other service work was done last week. We arrived a little early for our appointment but they got us right in and we were out the door in no time. Just so happened that across the street from Discount Tire was a car wash. The truck needed a bath desperately, so it finally got one. Another one of our planned stops is also close by, Sam’s Club. We had a small list and as we were walking around we found some food that would be nice to have but we did not have a cooler so we checked out what they had. We did not want to spend the money as coolers have gotten expensive. They did have an isolated bag, similar to the one we have. So we opted to get the bag and buy a few groceries. A test run if you will for possible future grocery runs. It’s lunch time. We were in the neighborhood of a Chick-Fil-A so it was time for a chicken sandwich and a peach milkshake. Yum ! Yum ! We called Moix’s RV to let them know we would pick up our RV in about an hour. After lunch we went to a Kroger grocery store. We were hoping that this store would have Boar’s Head deli meats. We were in luck. They did. Finally after 4 months we got some good meat and American cheese. Yes, I am a food snob. I can’t help it. We picked up some good food and found our way to Moix. The sad part is that they did not have any pork roll, a.k.a. Taylor ham. They had our RV sitting and waiting for us. I went inside and paid the bill. Hoses are not covered by our extended warranty.
Before we could hitch up, I had to adjust our Demco hitch. I had to open the jaws a little when we hitched the Cyclone. Now I had to close them back. This took maybe 10 minutes. Just as I had imagined, the batteries were dead. I forgot to disconnect when we dropped it off. Fortunately one of the workers brought a jump box out and we were able to get it raised enough to hitch up. And off we went to go back home.
We arrived back in Mountain View around 4:30PM. As we are setting up again I decided to get Snap Pads for our hydraulic jacks. The literally snap onto the feet and give a sturdy base for the RV to set better. Once they were installed we unhitched and leveled up. We then hooked up our electricity and our water and our sewer lines. Then it was time to turn on the AC and try and cool off the rather warm RV. It felt so good to have it back.
Because the cottage is rented out for tomorrow and the next 2 nights, we opted to start moving things out of the cottage this evening. We had just about everything out in about 2 1/2 hours. We spent the night in the cottage.
