Since we have spent the last two days driving, we intended to lurk around the Soledad Canyon Thousand Trails campground today. This allowed me plenty of time to become more apprehensive and distressed about our new trailer brake controller that was sending frightening code displays when I was braking last Thursday on our way here from Wilderness Lakes. Nobody in the mobile RV repair business works Sundays so calling for help was right out.

Despite being almost completely ignorant about electrical braking systems, we still elected to wander outside our trailer to check out that about which we knew nothing. Peggy crawled under the Barbarian Invader and checked out all the trailer brake wiring at the business end. No wiring flaws or scrapes or broken stuff was detected. I, meanwhile, stared at some of the trailer brake wiring under the hood of the truck. I did note that the trailer brake controller ground wire at the battery didn’t look too sanitary so I put on a new terminal and reattached the ground wire. I have considerable doubt we fixed anything.

After doing almost nothing, we called off our efforts and retired to the trailer where I started researching repair facilities between us and our next destination. We found a promising facility in Lancaster but they do not answer the phone on Sundays so we’ll give them a jingle in the morning. We also prepared to call the next few RV park we were scheduled to visit on our way north so we could tell them we were going to arrive behind schedule.