Monday 21 March 2005

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Awake 6:09am Temp 53 Low Dark clouds Overnight @ Newell Campground


@ 6:45am, assistant service manager Tommy, rings our doorbell & tells us
that Mike is on his way from Tulsa with our repaired transmission...so be
ready to move into the service bay. No more than 5 min later, about 12
workers are seen heading for our coach. I move our Suzuki auto out of the
way & then our coach is man powered into bay#3. Their timing was good.
About 30 min later, that black cloud let loose with a bunch of heavy rain
& the rain continued, heavy at times, throughout the day.

Mike arrives about 10:30am with a helper. The BIG jacks are rolled into
place & again the coach is raised about 3 ft from the floor. The
reinstallation of the transmission goes a lot faster with his helper's
help. They were adding new hydraulic fluid around 2:00pm. Mike asks me to
assist in doing the transmission tests. I select drive & hold my foot on
the brake for nearly 20 min until the temp rises to 142 degrees in the
transmission. This is the same test that showed a failure last Wednesday.
Now all of Mike's readings on his computer, which is attached to our info
plug on our dash, reads as it should, normal. I am told by Mike that
Allison will cover all the costs for this repair except the air freight
overnight shipping of parts, about $50.00. I can handle that.

After that happy episode, I call Roadmaster, the Portland, Oregon
manufacturer of our tow hitch. We talk about the model hitch that Jim has,
the missing parts, are they available & how much will they cost. Then I
locate Jim, show him the cost for the parts, air freight charges & we
arrive @ a fair & decent price. We have a deal & later, I pay him off with
cash.

About 6:15pm Jim & Betty drop by our coach in bay#3. We invite them in for
a glass of wine. 1.5 hrs later, we had covered much about our earlier
lives, work careers, family trials & tribulations, etc. It was some good
bonding with these nice people from Idaho. It turns out that both Jim &
Betty were born & raised on a chicken farm. They are talking about leaving
tomorrow & going back to Idaho to be there for Easter and for their
daughter's surgery on April 29th.

8:15pm Dinner: Chicken in sherry with tomatoes, olives & garlic over penne
paste + spinach salad & garlic bread.

Late evening: Watch cable movie: "Death Becomes Her" with Meryl Streep.
Good flick. Guaranteed to keep you awake & laugh. It worked for Kathy.

High temp= I don't know, we were inside all day. Lights out: 11:20pm

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