07-16-04
It's over, already. We had our last classes today. We got
up this morning and temperature was about 67. It did get warm
though. Hot actually. At one point the outside temp gauge
said 121. It really was not that hot - it's the aluminum brackets
holding up the pass. mirror reflecting heat. Actual temperature
was probably 95 or so. I thought for a while we blew up the air
conditioner. Could not get hardly any air out of it. I
figured we had a motor problem, as in not running fast enough.
Wrong. I finally went up on the roof ( boy, was that fun in 95
deg. heat), and pulled off the cover. It turned out that it had
frozen up. Ice all over the condenser except about 1 inch at the
bottom. No wonder we were getting no air through it. I shut
it off for a while, then finally figured if I ran the fan only, that
would pull heated air through it and help melt the ice in a
hurry. Worked like a champ. In a few minutes, all the ice
was gone and we could turn the cool air on again. Oh, it just
feels great.
Cool air never felt so good. For a little while there I had
thoughts of visiting Camping World and replacing the air conditioner to
the tune of 600.00. Actually, that probably isn't all that
expensive, installation included, in my opinion. Anyway, the
party is over. Some of the others have left already. Not
all that many, but a few of them had to be somewhere in the next couple
of days, so they left after classes were over. I think we will
leave tomorrow morning, (that would be Saturday), or maybe not.
We have a load of laundry to do, dump the tanks, get some groceries,
and I have an appointment to have the rig weighed. This outfit
weighs each wheel, to see if one or more corners are overloaded.
Figure it is worth the money to find out exactly where we are at.
So, probably after that, we will mosey along either into Washington, or
Oregon or both. I'm not sure we will have cell phone access after
we leave here, so if the website isn't updated for a couple of days,
that will be why. If we are in a roaming area, we will not use
the phone, cause it will cost a good bit for each call. Anyhow,
we will be heading to Gualala, Ca. to see George O. By the time
we get there, we should have cell phone access. Could be Tuesday
til we get there. As I said, we will be playing this completely
by ear. If you want to see plenty of pictures of what rv's were
here during this week, look at the "almost all rv pics" link on the
home page. We had another great class on solar for rv's again
today. I never cease to be amazed at the complexity and
simplicity of the system at the same time. It sounds like solar
is finally starting to take off, especially in some other countries
outside of the US. Wouldn't mind using some of that myself.
Anyway, That's it for tonight.
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