10/8/15 Thursday. On our way to Colorado Springs, the truck transmission wouldn’t shift to 6th gear and often stayed in 4th. It started just before we got here. Doug called a dealer and was told to have the truck in the shop by 7 AM Thursday morning. The dealer paid for a rental car. Friday, the call from the shop said they wanted to change the filter and a lead coil (that’s a truck guy thing, I have no clue). Could do the work on Saturday. In the meantime, we tried to extend our stay on our site until Monday. But here is the stirred soup recipe: current site reserved for weekend, one site available with just water and electric, need to move, need to have truck back to dealer early Sat. morning. Next mess: needed truck to move to new site, drove in Friday evening, picked up truck, moved RV EARLY Sat. morning, took truck back to dealer and picked up same rental car. Funny end: the people who reserved our old site never showed up! We didn’t have to move until Monday! Who is on first? What’s on Second? Sounds like the old Laurel and Hardy antics!
Welcome to the sand pit! Our new site is worse than the first. It is the one and only site in the campground with no thin layer of gravel. It is just loose sand and the dew in the early morning makes the sand stick to everything. We have the scenic view of the tractor, gravel piles, backhoe, and old lumber next to another RVer. The really bad news: the shop called and said that once they started work, it is the whole transmission that is bad. May take 3 –6 days to get the new transmission and one day to install it. So while I was with our friends, Doug drove BACK to the dealer AGAIN to pick up the truck until they call us to tell us when to bring the truck in, hopefully, for the FINAL time! OUCH $$$$$$! Totally unexpected reason to stay in Colorado Springs. Hope it doesn’t snow before we leave!
We are so disgusted with this campground that we are moving to the Air Force Academy campground Monday morning. It is first come, first served, but there are sites available. Thank goodness! It is pretty up on the mountain under the trees but all the way across town from our friends. Guess we will manage.
The only saving grace, if there is one, for this campground are cottontail rabbits. Lots and lots of them! Sometimes 15 or twenty are out at the same time. Early morning and late evening, we are surrounded! We have never seen so many at one time! They are so cute and I LOVE rabbits anyway.
Oh no. I am so sorry about your truck. I know how you feel about the money. Our injectors just about did us in financially. I'm glad you're moving. Even though scooter would love to chase all those rabbits. We had a 70 mph gust up here at the airport. Sure glad we're not on the road.
ReplyDeleteOh no. I am so sorry about your truck. I know how you feel about the money. Our injectors just about did us in financially. I'm glad you're moving. Even though scooter would love to chase all those rabbits. We had a 70 mph gust up here at the airport. Sure glad we're not on the road.
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