Denver,Co. repairs done&to Evergreen,Co.Camp#36

As I wrote yesterday we spent the night in a motel. Had a fitful night's sleep. Guess my nerves were scrambled by our breakdown. I don't know why though, usually stuff like this is a "take it as it comes" situation.
   The repair place, Stevinson Chevrolet in Denver, called about 10AM and said the motorhome started right up this morning and they test drove it 3 miles. They guess it was vapor lock. ( I didn't like the sounds of this!) They sent a car to pick us up. We had to manuever around their tight storage area and rehook to the trailer and many manipulations later we escape their terribly tight parking area.
 Decided to drive around  Denver a bit to see how it ran. Didn't get 2 miles and felt faltering and hesitation. OH-OH !! Pulled into a body shop and the owner gave me a place to tinker with this problem. Took the doghouse off, looked around, checked all the vacuum lines, noticed the carb has a gas filter on it that hasn't been touched. So much for a full inspection by the dealer. The underbody filter was changed a few weeks ago. There was a little repair shop next door, I managed to sweet talk the mechanic there (most hate working on MH's) into changeing the carb filter. It was pretty dirty too. He had one at his shop, luckily. OKAY, off for another test run. Works fine now. I figure the $80 spent at the Chevy dealer was a waste of time. I will be calling them and giving them a piece of my mind just to make me feel better. (of course that may be dangerous at my age. Not much mind left...LOL)
   Headed South on 470 from Denver. Exit West to Evergreen via  hwy 74.  Mountain views were gorgeous, the road was very windy with rock outcroppings about 2 ft from the mirrors. Speed limits and warning signs posted keeps everyone down to 20 to 25 MPH.

 Ahhh, my kinda speeds finally. The inclines on this route aren't too bad and we arrived in Evergreen about 2PM, took a quick drive thru town.

Very busy place and not a lot of parking for our rig.  Parked at the Elks Lodge and rejoined the Elks while waiting for my friend, Red, to meet us after he's off work at 4PM.

   A little after 4 , Red met us and we drove over to his place 2 blocks away. Now we're moochdocked at his house. This will be Camp #36. Way up in the mountains with spectacular views! WOW !! 

   We all went to town tonite and Happy Houred at Captain Jacks, ate dinner and visited some of his friends, wrapped up the evening back at his house catching up on the last 5 years. Way too late we retired to the rig. Should be a good nights sleep.
   Hope y'all are at peace too!
  REMEMBER, LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS TIME GOES BY QUICKLY.  Charlie & Heather.