Edit: Added a few pictures
Sunday was a late night for us so we did not break any records leaving Crosslight Chapel in Moore on Monday morning. We had 300 miles to travel and a good weather forecast for the whole day. We were in no hurry.
It was a beautiful travel day with absolutely no bus trouble and one small traffic delay east of Joplin on I-44. OKC and Tusla were easy-peasy and we sailed right along. Beautiful I say!
I only stopped once for a short break on the turnpike between Tusla and Joplin and we pulled into an RV park after 308 miles and five hours and 20 minutes. That is a near perfect travel day.
I hear someone say, "RV park? What's up with that? You all hardly ever stay overnight in an RV park?"
Yep, that is absolutely correct. We are only in an RV park because we are having trouble with the generator. It is impossible to spend much time in the bus in summer temperatures without air conditioning and it is impossible to have air conditioning while parked without electricity. With no dependable generator, we need an RV park.
That cramps our travel style and is actually more expensive too. We are parked five miles from the generator shop where we have an appointment for 8:00 AM Tuesday. We paid $58 for the privilege of parking 16 hours on a gravel parking lot with water/sewer and 50 amps.
If we could generate electricity, we would have parked at the truck stop next door to the shop and spent less than $30 of diesel to run the generator for the same time period. But it is actually more about convenience than it is money. Planning our travel days around RV parks is inconvenient at best and impossible some days.
Plus, several places we are supposed to preach this summer have no parking or no electric access at the church and no RV parks anywhere nearby. That puts us in a pickle.
We really need this generator and we are praying this place can diagnose the problem and repair it lickety-split! Last week, while running the generator and checking voltage I noticed one of the electric cooling fans is not working. That will need to be replaced as well.
I hope we have good news by the end of today. We shall see.
Thank you for dropping in.
Davy
