Awake: 4:15am Temp 72 sleep 5+14 low dark clouds overnight @ Newell.
@ 6:00 am, with Kathy still sleeping, I walk to the service bay & talk with Creslie, our assigned service coordinator, about our audio entertainment dilemma. He agrees to send someone out to our coach to see what the problem is.
Around 7:00am Roger, the electronics tech, visits our coach & starts to trouble shoot the audio speaker glitch. About an hr later, Kathy figures this entertainment fix will probably take some time & leaves to buy more good meat @ Nott’s Meat Market downtown.
Meanwhile, I retract our remaining (2) slides, disconnect & store the outside water filters in prep for hopefully traveling sometime this morning. 30 min later, that low big dark cloud let loose with a lot of heavy rain. Roger is making some progress but not enough. During a lull period of the rain, he gets another Marantz surround sound unit from the production factory & plugs in all the cables to continue the troubleshooting. The problem persists.
Finally, Roger declares that he needs a 2nd opinion; goes into the service building & brings Ron, the other electronics tech, with him. Together they try different remotes to pin down the cause of (4) speakers out of (5) not working. Then @ 9:40am, Ron discovers a cable leading from the DVR that somehow, got disconnected. He plugs the cable in & “bingo”, (5) speakers are talking; our surround sound is alive & well. They exchange the substitute Marantz for the original to keep the Harmony remote control program intact, plug all the cables, test the remote & sign us off with a “have a safe trip.”
Kathy returns around 10:00am; after she stores the meat, I drive the coach out of our parking site; we hook up the Suzuki & leave the Newell Service Campground in Miami @ 10:46am. The rain has stopped; low dark clouds have moved eastward & the roads are dry now.
We drive approx 30 min in Oklahoma & the rest of the day in the state of Kansas. One (15) min comfort stop including the outside check. US Route 69 to US 400 to I-96 to I-135 to I-70 to Goodland, KS., arriving @ the local Wal-Mart @ 7:30pm local time.
Today’s travel: 517 miles 9+15 time 89 gal used 5.8 mpg 59.9 avg speed
K & I go inside the Wal-Mart; talk with the night supervisor & get permission to park in their parking lot for the night. We’re joined by several semis during the night.
Late dinner: Polish sausage, cauliflower, whole wheat noodles & a spinach salad.
Watch the O’Reilly Factor & some more of the movie: “The Lady from Shanghai.”
High travel temp=78 Lights out: 10:39pm local
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