It was hot and very humid again here today. So much so that neither Doreen nor I felt like hitting the road and doing the tourist thing. This is the second day in a row we received Heat Advisories. The humidity made it really miserable.
So we took a "down day". We do that once in a while. Doreen took advantage of the campground laundry facility just a few campsites down from where we are. In between wash and dry cycles she made a batch of her Warren County Fair blue ribbon winning salsa here in the coach!
While she was doing that, I headed down to the main campground office and fetched an Amazon package that arrived. It contained a replacement cover for my Lippert Solera powered awning motor. I discovered likely why I lost the cover to begin with. Both covers on that bedroom awning were missing one of the two screws that hold the covers on. So I installed the new cover on the motor end including new screws, and I installed a screw on the other cover. On the dining room awning I checked to make sure both covers were secure with screws.
The motor end with the cover missing
The replacement cover from Amazon
Inside the replacement cover showing the screw holes
All better!!
This missing cover issue is not a big deal. It is just part of dragging a trailer all over the country. Our nation's infrastructure is in bad shape and our vehicles get shaken terribly, and things come loose. And things fall off. And things break. We regularly have to go around and tighten fasteners that have come loose. We use sealant, some locking fasteners and thread-lok on other fasteners to help, but the at the end of the day they describe RV's experiencing "an earthquake going down the road". As Clark W, Griswold would say, "It's all part of the experience!"
This afternoon both of our Ankeny grandsons had baseball games which we were able to tune in on Game Changer app. Again, we are so glad to be able to travel and yet stay connected to the kids and grandkids. This is on my iPad and then we "cast" this to our 50" TV in our coach.
So we watched Daniel and Calvin's games, then we tuned into the Las Vegas Aces WNBA game to watch Kate Martin, former University of Iowa women's basketball player. Then we tuned into watch Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever play, also a former U of I player.
For dinner we headed into Sturbridge to a Mexican restaurant called Condera.
We both had a taco salad, mine with shrimp and Doreen's with chicken. They were really good and hit the spot. The service was great too.
On the way back I took a picture of this unfamiliar sign and had to Google it for a clarification. I guess it is a Massachusetts thing!
Translated: "Thickly settled == dense residential area (slow down, ya mook!) 2nd sign == no big trucks (it's a hood, ya chowdah head!)"
And, there is apparently a State Law that specifies the speed limit in "Thickly Settled": areas: "On roads within thickly settled or business districts, the reasonable and proper rate of speed is 30 mph."
So now you know!
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