Off to See the Country: Finally! Heading to Idaho

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Finally! Heading to Idaho

February 28, 2019

We were so excited to get on the road, we both woke up around 3:15....that's AM ! After trying to go back to sleep, we decided to get up. We were due to get up at 4 anyway for an early start.

...got last minute stuff packed away and all the outside doors closed and locked..quietly as possible. Started up the coach around 5 and left the park to hook up the truck away from everyone....and off we went!

Now, the fun begins...

First off, we hear a sharp noise. Kim looks over at me and says, "We just lost a mirror". Acckkk...my convex mirror on the passenger side decided to leave us. (A phone call to Newmar and they'll send me one....for $55.) But that one is really valuable to see cars as they try to sneak by us on the right.

The bottom convex one came off on the passenger side.

After that, we're cruising along, tunes playing, watching the rush hour traffic wiz by us...poking along at 60 mph. It really dark outside. Suddenly, around 40 miles down the road, an alarm in the coach starts screeching at us! "Kim, find out what that is !" Fortunately, it was only two miles to a Rest Area so we pulled in and found out the noise was coming from the LP/Propane detector. Not good.

Opened all the windows, turned on the fans and flipped off the frig, hot water heater and turned off the propane tank. Told heart to stop beating so fast.

Now, this is around 6:30 in the morning. What RV mobile person will be around at that early hour? The alarm finally stopped so, while waiting for someone to get to their office so we could get some answers, we took a short nap. Turns out the unit is from 2002! It's supposed to be changed every 5 years. So, let's see....that would be 2007 and then 2012 and then 2017! We missed three changes!

Here's the little culprit!

Headed up to Lazy Days in Tampa and bought a new one, kept all the propane turned off and went our entire distance up to Lamont, Florida for the night, stopping at a few Rest Areas along the way. (I think Florida has some of the nicest Rest Areas we've seen.) 320 miles, pulling in around 4:30 in the afternoon. Took Katie for a nice long walk.

So much for a nice, leisurely first day on the road!

Time for some dinner and a long night's sleep. Tomorrow we head to Biloxi Boomtown Casino for the night, then Cajun country.

Our spot at A Stone's Throw RV in Lamont, Florida.

And, we got to see two gorgeous Cardinals outside our window.

Oh, one more thing. We got to see Katie's mom when we were in Nokomis. She's owned by our groomer there, Kay. She was nice enough to bring her to the shop so we could get the two of them together. Trixie is 7 and Katie is now 3. So cute together!