Author: harrylange

Hesperia, CA – Wednesday February 14, 2018

This morning when I went out to check on our front end oil leak, it was back.  I called the people who did the brakes and they were not at all interested in our problem.   They did give me a name of shop in southern Cal.  This shop could not look at the coach for 4 weeks, however they gave me the name and number of a shop in Hesperia, Ca (right next to Victorville, Ca).  Range RV said he could at least look at the coach on Friday and there is a empty lot across the street from them where we could spend the night.  We headed out on the 47 miles to Hesperia, Ca and Range RV (I really really like my GPS).

When we got to Hesperia we pulled into the empty lot and I went across the street to see Brian at Range RV to let him know we were there and be in his shop in a matter of minutes.  I went back to the coach to unhook the pickup, I pickup’s transmission would not re-engage.  So we where off the Victorville Ford dealership.  Ford spent a lot of time trying to get a trouble code out of the transmission.  They finally got the transmission engaged however now the system is working so no trouble codes.  They would not take any payment for the time they had spent working on the truck.  I went through the steps to disengage the transmission, the light on the Neutral Tow switch blink as it did it’s test procedure, the transmission dis-engaged and then went out, it is supposed to stay on.  At this point the tech’s at the dealership hooked up another computer and got a test code for “Neutral Safety Switch” in the transmission.  Again they would not take any payment for the time they had spent.  Larry the service writing said at this point they could not look at the pickup until next week and any dealership I went to would change me for trouble shooting because they are not going to believe the last dealership.  It is really to bad that one dealership can not talk to another and believe each other.  Oh well, we can now tow the pickup to Goodyear and see about getting it fixed.

We drove back to Range RV, unhooked the pickup and settled in for a couple of days.

Boron, CA – Tuesday February 13, 2018

Today was the longest day of this trip 464 Miles which got us to the rest stop in Boron, Ca.

Their aren’t many good places to stop in southern Cal but this rest stop gets us into the high desert and has great places to part.
We got one of the island sites so we could have the bedroom slideout out.

Tomorrow we should be in the quiet desert of Quartzsite.

Forget to put the travel maps in:
The last one shows where we set for 30 minutes waiting for the island spot to open up. When not moving the InReach transmitter goes into an every 4 hour mode rather than every 10 minutes, moving 30 feet does not get it back into the 10 mode. I turned it off be it transmitted again.

 

Orland, CA – Monday February 12, 2018

Yes we are still at the same rest stop as last night.

Sunday evening when I want out to check the engine oil level I saw brake fluid on the inside of the front tires.  The driver’s side had more than the passenger side but the both had fluid on the tire and a small line running down on the rotors.
I looked on the internet for truck / RV repair places and didn’t come up with any place that really stood out.  I did find that both Orland and Corning have Les Schwab stores.  This morning we drove to the Les Schwab in Corning to have the brakes look at.

The calipers and brake fittings are not leaking, couldn’t find a place where any was coming out.  It looks like the guy who did the brake job at Christmas got a lot of brake fluid on the inside of the wheel rim and with the brakes warming up coming down out of the Siskiyou’s this fluid flowed down onto the tire and onto the rotor.

We spent the afternoon at a rest stop north of Corning and are now back at the rest stop south of Corning.  Tomorrow (Tuesday 2/13/2018) we will drive to Boron, Ca.

While we were in Corning we did stop at the Olive Pit and purchased a few olives.  The Washington delivery will not be made until the end of April, sorry for the delay.
Short travels today.
Campsite.

 

Orland, CA – Sunday February 11, 2018

Forgot to take campsite picture again today. We got here at 4:15, Hank and I walked around the rest stop several times and I never thought of taking the picture.

The weather report for the Siskiyou’s is for snow late tonight into Monday morning so we drove thru and got south of the winter weather. Looks like our spring has arrived and in a couple of days we will be into summer weather.

Update – drive through Siskiyou’s, glad we beat the snow.
Campsite

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Heading South For Baseball and Sun – Thursday February 8, 2018

Our current plan is to leave Saturday for the trip south to Peoria and a month of Mariner’s baseball.   This year we were able to get Spring Training Season Tickets and saved almost $300.00 in the ticket price.

I got a lot of things done to the motor home during our time at the big house.

Coach got:
A radiator flush, all new hoses and belts, spark plugs and wires.
New brakes and rotors all around.
Fixed the furnace again, this time I replaced the burner.
Restrung the window blind over the couch.
Couch got 3 new springs on the end we set on the most.
New sink faucet.
New show faucet.
Changed out the batteries, added two 6 volt batteries for a total four 6 volt AGM batteries, 440 amp hours of storage.
New battery charger with remote panel.
Replaced the XM antenna after the slide out broke the antenna wire.
Changed the oil and filter.
Changed the transmission filter.
Changed the oil in the generator.
Made a bracket so I can put the wind sock pole the rear ladder.
Replaced the plug on the 30 amp 110 power cable.

Anyway looking forward to 85 degree weather and some sun.

Big House Enumclaw, WA – Monday November 13, 2017

We made it back to the big house for the next couple of months.   Will be here for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year.  First spring training game will be Friday February 23, 2018.
Today’s drive

Here is the Fall trip.

Trip summary:
Motorhome 5645 miles
Pick-up 1612 miles
Gas prices
High $3.49 – Thousand Palms, CA
Low $2.20 – Albuquerque, NM & Tucson, AZ
Avg $2.58
869 gallons

Sparks, NV – Wednesday November 8, 2017

It is a good thing we did the long drive and got here yesterday.  The weather has moved in with some snow and a lot of wind in the Sierra Mountains. It looks like it will be Friday, Saturday or Sunday before the weather clears in the Sierra’s and then we get to deal with the Siskiyou’s.

While I was eating lunch the other day I noticed this on the jar of pickles I was eating.
Notice these pickles are a product of India.
Here is the front of the jar.
Farman’s pickles was started in Enumclaw, Washington.  We lived in Enumclaw until I was eight years old and I can remember the smell of pickles and chlorine as we swam in Pete’s Pool.  The main road at that edge of town is still called Pickle Factory Road.
Farman’s was purchased by Nalley’s of Tacoma and now it looks like several other companies after that.  By the way they still taste the same as they did 60 year’s ago.

Sparks, NV – Tuesday November 7, 2017

Our original plan was to drive to Lodi, Ca on Tuesday and then on to Sparks on Wednesday.  Winter weather is moving in Wednesday morning so we decided to drive all the way to Sparks on Tuesday, 500 miles. We were up at 5:00 a.m. and moving at 5:30 a.m. and got to Richard and Vickie’s at 4:30 p.m., I was tired.

This is our campsite for a couple of days.
They live on a hill and it takes a couple of blocks to get level.