Sharp's Travels

We got the 5th wheel closed up and headed over to Darren and Jodi’s to wait for UPS to deliver my fuel tank controller. It arrived at 11:30am. I did the install (3 minutes) and we said good bye to Jodi and headed back to the 5th wheel. Cheri made a sandwich for lunch and we got on the road at 12:30 pm. After driving a couple of hours I see the fuel being pumped from the ancillary tank into the main tank. So now everything is working the way it is suppose to. We arrived at Beech Bend Campground in Bowling Green Kentucky around 5:00 pm local time as we are now in Central Time Zone. We will spend one night here and be on our way tomorrow. While setting here in the campground this evening I could hear race cars nearby. It turns out there is a race track next to the campground so Cheri and I went to the races tonight. We saw some figure eight racing, something we have never seen before. It takes more guts than I have to do something like that. They also had the regular racing and turn out to be a fun night.

I called on my fuel tank part and I won’t receive it until tomorrow. So we decided to get the 5th wheel out of storage and set it up for today and spend the night in it. That way we could get the motorcycle loaded and all the stuff we had at Darren and Jodi’s put away. It started to rain before we left Darren and Jodi’s, thought I would get wet riding the motorcycle to the campground. I had only gone a short distance before it quit raining. So I ended up with a dry ride. I even got it loaded on the 5th wheel before it started raining again. After we got everything put away we went and got groceries. We had Darren and Jodi over for supper. Cheri made lasagna with garlic toast and wine. Then peach cobbler for dessert.

Darren wasn’t home when we got up this morning. He pulled an all nighter. He did get home around 2:30 pm. He did some work from home and finally lied down around 4:00 pm and back up around 6:00 pm. Cheri did some laundry, reading and watching TV. I took a walk, read, watched TV and did a lot of work on the computer. When Jodi got home from work around 6:00 pm. We went out to Quizno’s for supper. When we got back Darren and I loaded his motorcycle on his trailer. He wanted to see how the new wheel chuck would work with the bike. He is happy with it as he doesn’t need any help loading it. When we got back in the house he did some more work on my computer. He had trouble getting one of my RV programs to work, had to install an older version Excel to make it work. He also installed the new printer software. I went to bed at 11:30 pm and Darren said he still had work to do. It’s nice that he can do a lot of it from home.

I went to work on the truck before it got to hot. I had to reverse the lead on the fuel tank that I thought was the reason it wouldn’t work. Now when the fuel controller comes back (tomorrow I hope) all I have to do is plug it in and everything should work ok. It will take awhile before I know for sure if it is working as I filled up with fuel. The price of fuel has gone up 18 cents in the last two days. This afternoon Cheri and I went to Wal-Mart and pick up the new printer, I found the one I wanted, HP C4580 wireless. Darren was going to do the set up for me this evening but he had to go back to work. He wasn’t home when we went to bed. Jodi said he probably will work all night. That is the one thing about computers and networking, you have to do all the work when nobody is around.

I didn’t sleep very well as I kept thinking about Darren’s truck not starting. Darren called for the tow truck to come and pick up. Darren and I followed the tow truck to the Ford garage. After they check it out they found the transmission module shorted, didn’t have one in stock and will be in tomorrow. They said the truck would be ready tomorrow afternoon. Jodi took Cheri for her 10.00 am hair appointment. At 12:30 pm Cheri called me and said she was done and want me to pick her up. On the way back we made a stop at the 5th wheel to pick up my back up drive for the computer. At 1:30 Darren got a call that the truck was done, turned out to be a faulty connector and not the transmission module (covered under warranty). So we headed over and picked it up. The four of us went out to the Long Horn for supper, great steak and it was really good, plan on going there again on our next trip to Atlanta. On the way home we stopped a Wal-Mart. I wanted to pick up a new printer, ours died last week. I had been searching on line and found the one I wanted (HP C4580). They were out of stock so tomorrow Cheri and I will go shopping at some other Wal-Mart’s to see if we can find one.