Well, after I typed last night’s blog we had a little problem. It was starting to rain and get windy out so Bill wanted me to bring in the awning. No problem! Then it started raining harder and he remembered the cactus was sitting out in the rain and I had taken the globes off and didn’t want the water to get inside and ruin the electric, so I put the awning out a couple of feet to keep me dry and get the cactus. Then as I tried to bring the awning back in, it went out. I tried several times and it would not come in but kept going out. Geez! So Bill called the guy we called when we first arrived in Savannah who dealt with our battery issue and he said he could have someone out to work on it at 8:30 today. Well, that meant we would not be on the road by 9. We worried when the wind got worse and the awning was rattling that we’d end up loosing it all together, but when we got up it was still there.
Bill let me sleep til 8 since there was really nothing we could do in case he needed to order something and we might not get to leave as planned. So we had our cereal and I did up our dishes and the RV tech arrived on time. I was telling him about the awning motor having been replaced when we first got the RV, and yada yada and he was pushing the same button Bill and I pushed and the awning went in. He attributed it to a wiring issue but as long as it was in, we could pack up and get on the road and have our RV guy at home look into it. Too bad we didn’t give it one more try. Oh well.
We didn’t get on the road til 10:30. Bill had to put air in 3 of the RV tires, which is a slow process. I hitched on the first try and then on our way out Bill took our keys to the park to the office and we were officially on the road. We had found the best way to get to the I-95 on the south side of Savannah but it took a while to really be on the way home. We stopped at noon for a multi-purpose stop. I bought peaches, Bill bought lunch at Wendy’s and we all got a potty break.
We ran into rain the first time around Jacksonville. We also started having trouble with the passenger windshield wiper. The rain got worse and the wiper got worse so Bill told me to turn them off and get off the road. I told him I couldn’t see to get off the road if I turned them off, so he repeated himself and I pulled over. He was working on the wiper and, oops, it wasn’t turned off, but lucky for me he didn’t have his hand on it. I tried not to smile since there he was, out in the drizzle, trying to fix it. It stopped raining as soon as we got back on the road and luckily when we stopped for fuel Bill worked on the wiper again and then I finished getting it back in the track. We still need a new wiper. Good thing we got it fixed as we ran into a lot of rain in the Daytona area and then again from Maitland to Ocoee. The weather sure made our unloading and parking a pain. We got to the house about 6:30, unloaded pretty much everything but the refrigerator and freezer and then took the RV back to the warehouse. I was not at my best parking this time. I was tired and couldn’t get my right and left straight, but Bill managed to get me into the space and we emptied the fridge, called First Choice to deliver some Chinese for dinner. We got to eat at 8 and it was yummy.
Then I looked at all the bags of food and clothing and laundry to be emptied and put away, ugh! But it was a great trip, a super experience and we look forward to the next time.
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