Facing more Challenges

Well, last Wednesday we started to back up to move on. Everything went well to begin with, the slides went in, the rear stabilizers came up and then Doug wanted to raise the front stabilizers so we can hook up to the truck. Nothing happened. We checked the hydraulic fluid pump and all electrical wiring and everything was working fine. He called the service guy from the place where we bought the rig and his ideas did not fix the problem either. By now two other RVers had come by and three men were discussing and debating what to do next. We could not lower the truck bed enough to hook up, so another solution had to be found. After about 1 1/2 hours Doug decided to lift the king pin by putting our bottle neck jack in the truck bed and lifting up the king pin. As soon as the weight was of the jacks, they moved again. We got hooked up without any further problems and were on our way. Luckily we had only a short way to go to the next campground and got there without anymore problems. Doug thinks that there might be air in the lines, but we don't have a way yet of working it out. Maybe a solution will present itself at the rally in Hutchinson.

We are in a nice campground just 20 minutes north of Topeka, so we did go back to the Sushi place and the food was still so delicious. Doug's birthday was on Sunday and we went to a nice steak house in the Casino. We had a blast and a very nice waitress. When she presented me with the bill she also brought out a huge piece of "death by chocolate" cake to go for us free of charge. We have met some really nice people throughout our travels this year.

So we are sitting in the rig yesterday watching TV and the satellite stops working. I am about to scream, but we realized that it is again looking for the wrong channel (119 instead of 101). So Doug went to Radio Shack today and cot a connector cable to the serial cable, since neither of our laptops has a serial port anymore. I am so glad that my husband is computer savvy. With this cable he was able to access the satellite controls and told it to look for channel 101 again and TV is fixed. I admit that I do get nervous when things fail, but so far we have been able to fix it ourselves. Hopefully we will be able to get the air bubbles out of the hydraulic lines and no more major problems will happen in the near future.

We are leaving here tomorrow to go to Hutchinson. I am so looking forward to seeing a lot of our friends there before we head on south.