What an ordeal

Rain, cold and wind continue.  Yesterday was one of the worst days I have spent in the motorhome.  Hard to keep warm, too wet to go out.  It has been too cold to run the heat pumps so we ran the propane furnace a lot.

The highlight of the day was a visit from Sheila and Zach in the evening!  After they left we turned up out two electric space heaters and then turned on the TV.  It was all too much for the electric circuit so about half our outlets went dead including both TV's.  No problem we thought, just reset the circuit breaker - except it wasn't off.  All the breakers looked fine as did the fuses.  Don thought it was a GSI outlet in the bathroom that had been pesky so he replaced it (had one on hand as he knew it was going out soon) but that didn't help.  We finally went to bed about 11 PM.  Neither of us slept well as we keep going over what could possibly have happened.  This morning we tried several other things but none helped so we called a RV repair person that comes to the site.  He was not available, left a message.  While waiting I picked up my Kindle Fire and went online to research "Fleetwood Excursion Electrical Problems".  Right away a message from another Don popped up.  He had the same problem caused the same.  He had gotten a reply that there are two breakers on the inverter (located outside), one had probably popped.  Reset it and you are back in business.

I told Don if I had the solution would he buy me the tablet computer I wanted, he agreed.  I told him what I had found and in a couple of minutes our problem was fixed.  This is about a crazy as it comes, we would have never guessed the problem was the inverter. ..

 Didn't get a table but got a new printer!

A littler warmer today and can use the heat pumps, got to the grocery store and Best Buy.

Rainy Sunday

Rain, rain, rain.  It rained all night, high wind gusts and turned cold.  It has rained most of the day.  We went out for breakfast and Don's first visit to his favorite store Menards.  In the afternoon Brenda and Rebecca came for a visit.   Sheila called later.  Looks like this weather will be with us for awhile.

Last lap to Minnesota

We got a good start heading north, weather good except for a east wind that is making it hard to stay in our lane.  We stopped for lunch at a rest stop and Don started the car to charge the battery.  We also started the generator as we hadn't run it for awhile.  When we were ready to leave we turned off the generator and started to drive off.  Don said something is wrong and then at the same time we both said CAR.  The car was still running and in PARK.  We had pulled the car about 5 feet in Park leaving skid marks.  I reset the car and we were off.

When we got to Dakotah Meadows our electricity would not come on.  The outside surge protector was giving us no error messages but the inside one said dl 3.  We tried various things but nothing would work.  I remembered that our former motorhome once had the same problem and Don was checking circuit beakers and flipping switches.  One switch was on the generator which was near all the other electrical stuff in that motorhome.  SO I asked him to go the our generator which in in front and see if there was a switch.  He didn't think it would make any difference - but it did.  After he flipped that switch the electricity came on, thankfully.

We beat the storms, rain, etc. The forecast doesn't look good, cold and wet.  We are not accustomed to seeing trees with no leaves.

Day on the road

We got out of our campground around 8:15 and headed north.  Most of the trip went well,  BUT pulling into the Flying J for diesel we had to turn sharply to miss a car and ended up with the MH wheel on the curb.  No problem for the motorhome but for our tow car it would not end well.  So we disconnected the car, which started but just barely, and I drove it around to where we could reconnect.

Moving on a few miles:  I told Don it was .9 miles to our turn but he liked the closer turn better so we ended up going East rather than North.  Had to exit off the highway and make a turn which would have been fine but the car in front of us was having problems.  Finally we got on the highway and almost took the South exit, thankfully no one was beside us and we were able to readjust and go North at last.

We got to Osceola, Iowa, our stop for the night at a casino, about 4PM.  More diesel at Pilot/Flying J.   All is well that ends well!!!

Last day in Branson

We went for lunch at the Grand Buffet - again.  Then to Target.  I saw one of the men from Duck Dynasty (who are appearing locally) roaming around trying to look incognito in his sun glasses.  I could have cared less.

We went to Casey's General Store and gas station for pizza.  We had heard it was very good but we found it average.

In the evening we went to The Baldknobbers.  They seemed like they were on auto pilot, but I would be if I had to perform 6 nights a week for 55 years.  Not an exciting show, too little music - too much from the "comedians".  Oh well we got the tickets for $5 each as a campground promotion.

Grands

Today we had breakfast at the incredible Grand Buffet.  In the evening we went to a show we had seen a few years ago, The Grand Jubilee.  It was as good as before.