Leslie Saturday, May 24, 2008
We took the RV to the repair facility this morning. Molly & Cody had to wait in the truck. Although they were annoyed, the weather was a beautiful, sunny day with temps in the upper 50's. I used the opportunity to finish some client work on my laptop.
Today was the first sunny day since last Sunday. We were happy for the opportunity to do some outside things. Prince George is the last town of any size we’re likely to see until early July when we’ll get to Anchorage. We replenished our provisions. Our one funny was that we saw and visited a COSTCO -- yeah! The organization of COSTCO was exactly the same as Fairfax, VA or Arvada, CO. After we had unloaded our cart and I had begun to write the check suddenly Robert remembered that a check would be in US dollars (not good). A quick look at our Canadian cash told us that we couldn't pay cash so we resorted to the COSTCO AmEX card. Not a big problem but we laughed at our forgetting what kind of dollars we're transacting. (Right now the US dollar and the Canadian dollar are at about par so it doesn't make much difference.)
Here is the welcome to Prince George.
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Because we're relying on campground WIFI we're having significant trouble getting emails out. While we sit here in the campground laundry room (longest time I've spent in a luandry room in many a year) we seem to be able to receive emails and we can post to the blog but we can't send any direct emails. Sorry about that.....
perhaps connections will be better tomorrow as we head west on Hwy 16 toward Smithers, BC.
more later,
Leslie
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Old Water Pump is History
Robert, Saturday, May 24
Got the water pump replaced today. When it quit working I called the factory and they said to get it replaced, send them the old pump, and they would send me a check for the cost. I’ll wait until we get to Alaska to send it as the cost to send it from Canada would be out of sight. It cost us $1.01 Canadian to send a letter to the US so I imagine the cost to send the pump from here would be prohibitive. The reason we picked the campground we are staying in is that it is literally across the road from the dealership that replaced the pump. After we got the pump replaced, we hauled the trailer back to the campground, set-up, and had lunch. Then we went into town to get a few things. We read on the web that there is a $20 vacuum cleaner that is small and works well so we wanted to get one. The vacuum we have been using is almost useless. The new one really does work far better than the old one. I have been trying to get the valve stems replaced on the truck tires. The ones that came with the truck are rubber and I want to replace them with metal. I bought the metal stems at a NAPA store and had one replaced a week ago. At the time I could only find one stem. We have pressure sensors installed on all of the tires on the truck and the trailer. The sensors are about the size of a marshmallow. The replace the regular valve caps. With rubber valve stems, they cause the valve stems to flex leading to early failure. Unfortunately, every place I checked said they couldn’t do the work until tomorrow. We plan on two or three days in Prince Rupert before we get on the ferry so maybe I can get them replaced there.
Got the water pump replaced today. When it quit working I called the factory and they said to get it replaced, send them the old pump, and they would send me a check for the cost. I’ll wait until we get to Alaska to send it as the cost to send it from Canada would be out of sight. It cost us $1.01 Canadian to send a letter to the US so I imagine the cost to send the pump from here would be prohibitive. The reason we picked the campground we are staying in is that it is literally across the road from the dealership that replaced the pump. After we got the pump replaced, we hauled the trailer back to the campground, set-up, and had lunch. Then we went into town to get a few things. We read on the web that there is a $20 vacuum cleaner that is small and works well so we wanted to get one. The vacuum we have been using is almost useless. The new one really does work far better than the old one. I have been trying to get the valve stems replaced on the truck tires. The ones that came with the truck are rubber and I want to replace them with metal. I bought the metal stems at a NAPA store and had one replaced a week ago. At the time I could only find one stem. We have pressure sensors installed on all of the tires on the truck and the trailer. The sensors are about the size of a marshmallow. The replace the regular valve caps. With rubber valve stems, they cause the valve stems to flex leading to early failure. Unfortunately, every place I checked said they couldn’t do the work until tomorrow. We plan on two or three days in Prince Rupert before we get on the ferry so maybe I can get them replaced there.
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