Roughing it.....

As we mentioned a few posts ago, our fridge started fritzing a couple of weeks ago.  This past Friday (at 4p as everyone is closing), she went.  Out.  Done.

First appointment would be Tuesday in Rockport (about 20 miles from Sea Breeze RV Resort) at 10a.  <sigh>.  We had to rough it.  Threw us back to our houseboating days on Lake Cumberland in Kentucky, where 12-16 of us had to pack everything into a big marine cooler for the week.  The park was kind enough to let us use some freezer space, some friends let us borrow some coolers and it was on.

Got through the weekend, and was reminded of the M*A*S*H episode where it was decided that the "M" stood for mobile and they were going to bug out -- across the road.  Thankfully, we got to Camper Clinic at around 9:30a (in some horrible winds) and the tech said "we'll have you back on the road in 15 minutes."  Terrific!  Wrong, but terrific hope!

Because it was a warranty issue, the tech was going back and forth with Norcold making sure it wasn't this, or wasn't that.  There were magnets involved, checks and more checks.  We had a great time checking out all the BigHorns on the lot and REALLY liked the Landmark Key Largos.  Always fun to see the new models even if we're not in the market.

By 10:50a, we left to go out for lunch.  Sonic Drive-In is a great place if you have dogs to eat on the road.  Afterwards, we visited the Rockport Dog Park.  It was terrific.  No dogs in the "little dog" park, so we hopped over to the "big dog" park where we saw a fascinating Springer Spaniel that had lost a leg and was just as fast as Carmen and Sloopy.  Such a great site to see this 3 legged dog running everywhere.  Then, the owner from hell showed up with her dog muzzled and on a 3 ft. leash.  She wouldn't take her dog off leash (which just frustrated the hell out of him) because she was afraid of our "little dogs" along with a little Scottie.  Amazing.  Time to go.

Got back to Camper Clinic at around 12:30p and she was all done! Running on propane (since we weren't hooked to shore power).  Got back to Sea Breeze RV park, plugged in and the fridge console said "AC no".  Would ONLY run on propane.

Called Camper Clinic back, was on hold for 15 minutes, got a service person who said, "well bring it back in".  Wrong answer.  Finally got her to relent and put the technician who worked on our unit on the phone.  Sure something either jiggled or came unplugged.

"Oh, I forgot to plug the AC back into the board!"  OK, let's do that.  "Reach in there and feel around...."  not what we wanted to hear.  Sure enough Bob got shocked before we turned the breaker off.  Found the cord, got it plugged in and we returned to the land of refrigerated food.