We traveled about seven hours today from Evergreen to New Orleans, stopping along the way for fuel in Alabama and Mississipi. The trip was mostly uneventful except for the last few miles of I10 coming into New Orleans. It was like a washboard! Rattled several things loose inside the RV and rattled our nerves. Like [...]
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The Shady RV Dealership sent out a tech they contract to do work for them yesterday so he could fix the holes they made in our RV last August. You remember the holes…the ones that caused the massive electrical short that cost us about $700 to fix. Rob sealed up the holes posthaste, and we [...]
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We thought the Saga of the Awning was over, but it’s not. Turns out the RV dealership replaced the cheapo awning they initially tried to pawn off on us with HALF a new Dometic awning. They bought new fabric and hardware and strung it all up on our old roller, all without telling us! Problem [...]
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Eagle RV finally came and installed the correct awning, a Dometic. It took nearly two months to get it done, and they still managed to cheat us (or the insurance company, depending on how you look at it). First they buy the cheaper and smaller awning and pocket the rest of the insurance money, making [...]
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About a month or so ago, the igniter on our stovetop stopped working. Rather than bother to try to figure out what was wrong with it, we just started using a lighter to get the burners going. Today I finally decided to take a moment, pull up the rangetop, and try to figure out what [...]
The RV repairman that the GEICO adjuster contacted won’t be coming out to fix our awning. Lex was trying to call and touch base to find out when we could expect him when she got his voice mail which explained that he wouldn’t be taking calls because he may well have H1N1, the swine flu. [...]
After finishing school work, I gathered up the trash, put away the dishes, swept the floor, cleaned the litter box, and then headed outside to deal with our water flow issue. We were back down to a trickle again. I just lived with it for a week or so because I knew what the problem [...]
