Bummers

I spent two nights at the Earthship. Then a weather report came that snow was indicated last night and John thought it would be best if I got over the summit between Trinidad and Raton in case there is snow. So I left about 10 AM and will meet up with John and Anita in Brownsville. The night before I left I started having problems with the Vaio. I tried to defrag the hard drive but I couldn’t do it because chkdsk was scheduled to run. I couldn’t run chkdsk because the software couldn’t get direct access to the Raid hard drives. To make a long story short, I spent about three hours that night and a couple the next morning trying to fix the problem.

At one of my stops on the road south I noticed that the valve and cover for the grey water tank was missing, probably a casualty of my excursion along side the Arkansas River. I drove until it started to be sundown and then I looked for a place to park somewhere in Texas. I found an access road to a gravel pit and since it was fairly late I thought it would be okay to park there. But pretty soon some guy came up to the rig and told me I couldn’t park there and so I moved on down the road a few miles and parked near a radio antenna.

On inspecting the rig some more, I noticed I needed to tighten some screws on the clothes cabinet doors. Then I started to fix dinner and the door to the refrigerator fell off. The upper hinge had broken. I guess the moral is to stay off of rough roads. It took about an hour but with the help of some gaffers tape I was able to get the door to the refrigerator shut.

The positive things were I traveled a long distance that day and after dinner; I was able to fix the Vaio

I got up a little after 5 AM and put lots of miles on the rig today. I’m now parked off of 37 about 15 miles south of San Antonio. I’m near a roadside lunch area but not in it. I hope it is okay to park here and I won’t be disturbed. No bummers today, so far.