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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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7:06 PM | Posted by Sharp's Travels
It was another nice morning with a temp of 52 degrees. Cheri and I headed over to the club house at 7:15 am for the free breakfast of pancakes, boy were they good and so was the coffee. We didn’t have to unhook the truck last night so that was one less thing to do this morning. Long story short we were on the road by 8:10 am which was great because that would get us to our winter campground (Baker Acers) in Zephyrhills around 1:30 pm. Now this is where our great plan went bad. At 12:00 pm and about 6 miles north of Ocala FL the truck lost power. Wow I couldn’t believe the fuel filter was plugged again after only about 500 miles. Well we were so close to Florida that I didn’t buy another filter because I have extra ones at Zephyrhills (not a good place for them now). I got on the phone and call our Good Sam Emergency Service and they sent out a mechanic with a fuel filter. After it was change we couldn’t get any fuel pumped to the filter so he went and got 15 gallons of fuel, still no luck getting fuel to the filter. 3 hours and $529.00 later the mechanic is gone and I am on the phone again to Good Sam Emergency Service telling them our problem. An hour and half later our wrecker came to tow us in to get the truck fixed. The wrecker driver was really nice (sorry I don’t remember his name) he said that he is supposed to tow us to a place about 50 miles away, back in the boondocks. He said that was really strange because there is a GMC truck shop about 8 miles down the road. So we told him to take us there. It was 5:00 pm when we got there and everyone was so nice. The truck and 5th wheel are locked safe inside a fenced in compound. They will start working on it tomorrow forenoon. Now it is time for us to find a place to sleep tonight the truck shop said that their insurance wouldn’t allow us to spend the night in the 5th wheel. Well we will see what tomorrow brings. I have upload pictures click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Truck break down.

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