Today we figured we would be able to go exploring but reality set in and fouled up our lack of plans. We found out the roof portion of our temporarily wounded RV will require a separate insurance claim from our tire explosion issue (see 2/6 and 2/5 entries) so I spent a couple hours on the phone chatting with insurance company employees I don’t know. I also spent some time talking to our RV mechanic and giving him pertinent info from the insurance company. It is funny that when folks having some problem are shown on TV, they are smiling and looking quite satisfied when dealing with their insurance company. Our experience has been somewhat different; I have spent hours on the phone either wandering in answering machine mazes or leaving messages for my mechanic who probably cannot answer when I call because he is busy in some uncomfortable space under someone else’s RV. After many hours of fooling around with our cell phone and its charger, I may be done with today’s fun frustrated communication activity.
I dumped the waste tanks but when I pulled in into our current RV space with our trailer with its failed tire and suspension parts, I was unable to check out the sewer location. It turns out that it was at the maximum distance from our trailer that I can deal with but the hole was also a bit uphill from our campsite so dumping was a bit problematic. I am now convinced that shit won’t run uphill.
Peggy went over to the laundry and she did our laundry while I was fussing with the dookies. Only sharpening our knives remains to be done on my schedule for today and I will start on that as soon as Peggy returns and shows me where she has concealed our knife sharpener. I am such a helpless goob without her around.
We put out the bird feeder because we have spotted flocks of them around here. Even though we have been primarily tied up with insurance companies and RV repairmen today, we have identified some bird types we have not seen before and we always think that is good.
We got pictures of some neighbors. Click here