What we know now – July 1st & 2nd

Meadowlark Campground in Brandon Manitoba 

1. We can fit two men in the bathroom and a few more in the bedroom. 

2. We know where the fuse box and main electrical is 

3. We know how to recalibrate the slides 

4. We know how to control the hot water on demand……..kind of 

5. Mosquitos come in the trillions here

6. Everyone (so far) is friendly and helpful if you are friendly first  

7. The fridge works great if you are level 

8. One can live in the same clothes for 5 days and not shower, see #4 above, if one ignores the situation  

9. You can own too many flip flops 

10. Well we knew it all along, but this adventure is EPIC and we are only on Day 6

We learned more in the span of 4 hours than all the reading, YouTube videos and calls to the mechanics. What did it take? A small posse of men, all long time RVers curing their hangovers by the fire, with another few cans of Milwaukee & Michelob. Thank God for Lori’s dog Winston who always draws attention when we are out walking. This is the main way we get to meet people. We started chatting with this group and one of them asked us why the back slide wasn’t out. So we explained our situation, and the puzzle solvers couldn’t help themselves, and jumped into action. While there were multiple opinions on how to fix the slide, we intuitively both trusted Glen who seemed the most reasonable and experienced (maybe the least hungover). Glen taught us how to recalibrate the slide from the inside control panel, which was super easy and it worked!!!! Now onto the hot water situation. We have not showered yet in the RV as we couldn’t figure out how to get hot water to work in the shower. The 5 posse of men are now inside the RV, with 2 of them in the bathroom explaining how the hot water on demand system works. Once we understood the impact of water pressure, we were able to get hot water into the shower. It was as simple as running the water into the kitchen sink first to build up pressure and then turning the shower on. YAY!! We can’t tell you all how grateful we are for this group of people and the many others along our journey that helped us.

In fact another couple, seeing us flush our RV tanks at the end of the day with Barb in her full mosquito hazmat suit (YUP they do indeed make them for purchase) came over to give us a contraption to keep the buggers away.  While well intended it didn’t work but it was the thought that counted.

Today off to Moose Jaw Saskatchewan & then onto Brooks Alberta both HH. And yes, we have been staying at a lot of HH this week. Do you recall the previous post of the cost of gas? Of course we need to optimize some free night stays at HH!