Does Trouble Come in Fours?

Lots has happened since the last post and we still haven’t dug out from it.  To begin with it was Thanksgiving week.  I mentioned previously that Joe and Sharon spent a couple days with us at our RV park.  We had a great time catching up with them before they headed back to Tampa for Thanksgiving with family.  No sooner had they left than Harry and Arlene pulled in from Tennessee.  We met them when

we were mooch-docking at the Hyder’s place this summer. 

Instead of joining in with the Thanksgiving dinner offered at Thousand Trails, the six of us opted to head to the Bob Evans Restaurant just down the road.  To begin with the Thousand Trails dinner came with a $20 fee and was slated to begin at 5:00.  We had a delicious meal at Bob Evans’ for $15 and got to eat at a much preferred time of 2:00.  That was a perfect choice.  It also left us with time to hit the pre-Black Friday sales. 

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When they say trouble comes in threes, they’re lying.  We’ve discovered four may be the actual number and we’re hoping that’s as high as Trouble can count.  

First, we had a mis-aligned awning and two slide awnings that needed to be replaced.  Upon arrival at our Orlando area park we contacted Master Pro RV Services to replace the slide awnings and fix the main awning.  It took them over a week and us to bug them to even order parts.  It’s been nearly three weeks now and not all the parts are in even though before we paid for them, we were guaranteed everything would be completed before November 30th. So far, that hasn’t happened and we wouldn’t recommend them for future repairs. $$$

  

My trusty computer died.  It just froze up and ended it’s life.  At least the hard drive is dead and took most of what was on the drive with it.   Of course, that’s not the end of the problem.  Finding someone knowledgeable enough to recover everything from the old hard drive is another issue.  We discovered a few who thought they were and have only been proven WRONG.  It takes so much time and so much work to set up a new computer  and that's what I've been doing ……   Down the road I'll put a new drive in the currently dead laptop but that'll have to wait.   $$$

Next, the alternator in our truck went out.  Another replacement was quickly made and more $$$ was released from very tight purse strings. 

Then, we had one more crash the same day as the alternator.  It seems our inverter decided to bite the dust.  Well, the inverter does come on but no “ juice”  is being transmitted to the coach. That repair will have to wait until we move down the road in a few days. $$$

I'm now beginning to think we've caught a disease.  It's the Rempe disease.  Now if you aren't familiar with that, it's contagious and passed from one RV owner to owner.  The deal is if you pass your bad luck on to someone else, all your troubles will be go away.   Now we just need to find someone else to pass ours to.  

 

After Thanksgiving dinner, Terry and I headed to Best Buy.  Since my computer had bit the dust (thus, very few pictures over the last few days) ,  I was in the market for another one ….. immediately!  What we forgot to think about were the lines.  The line to Best Buy was tremendous and we were thankful not everyone was after the same sale item we were.  We made our way through the crowds, found a laptop with features similar to the one that just died and saved $250 to boot.  We were also back out that door fairly quickly.

On Friday, the Hyders threw a birthday bash and Harry and I shared the honors  of blowing out the two candles and being sung too.  Again, we had a great time just visiting, eating and enjoying the company.    Then, on Saturday they took us out to Longhorn.  What fun.  With all the disasters over the last few days, it certainly won’t be a birthday I’ll forget anytime soon!  

So, we have one more visit at Walt Disney World on Monday and then, we’re on the road heading farther south.

‘Tis life on the road.