12-13&14 Moteling it

Spent a few nights at the Super 8 in Foley. Al. while the motor is being changed out in our motorhome. We picked this motel because it's walking distance to eats and for it's prices. At $60 per night it raises our camp fees considerably.

Robert, our mechanic had the weekend and Monday off ,so he's been working on our rig every day. Took a day to get everything disconnected and a day to pull out the engine and plant the replacement. That ate up Friday and Saturday and part of Sunday. He was working on reconnecting all the oil lines, tranny lines, electrical wires and gas lines when we got back on Monday. Had to order a new accelerator cable (got bent during engine removal), which won't be at the auto parts til Tuesday at 2PM . I tried to order new oil cooler lines ( which were aged and leaking) and they are “ not available” so we have to have them made & that will slow this job down. But, all in all, it's all progressing.

Went back Monday night to the rig at the work site. Going to return to the motel tomorrow for 1 or 2 nights.

Robert is starting to worry about time constraints so I told him to take it easy. I know this is a lot of work. I certainly have “ been there, done that” !! No sense in doing this half assed. If we find stuff that is showing it's age then we need to fix it. It's understandable when you're driving an Classic motorhome!! Most of the repairs are do to age (1984). Hard to believe Rolling Earthquake is 30 years old ! Part of the game. We decided that a long time ago. I know that you can have big problems even on a new rig. The nice part of all of this is The Rig Is Paid For !! ( grinning ). Most of our repairs don't even equal a new rig's payments.

I've had a few of my friends make comments about how they couldn't stand the stress...that's never been my problem ! Our backup plan has always been to go buy another “classic” rig if we have to!

REMEMBER, LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS TIME GOES BY QUICKLY !!

Charlie & Heather6