Moving Day

On Wednesday we left Carthage, Missouri and drove about 150 miles to the Lake of the Ozarks area.  We are now in a little town called Linn Creek, Missouri which is near the Lake of the Ozarks state park.

First I wanted to tell you about the drive over.  The majority of the drive was on Interstate 44 going eastbound.  Around Springfield, Missouri I began to notice many cool looking hot rods and old cars on the westbound side of the interstate.  Many were in groups.  These sightings went on until our route called for us to get off of the interstate.  As we changed highways there was a group of 5 cars coming onto to the same highway going to an Auto Zone store.  On the rear window of each of these cars was a sticker “Power Tour 2012”.  I Googled this title and found out this is an annual road trip sponsored by Hot Rod magazine.  It lasts a week and this year the trip is from Michigan to Oklahoma.  It was cool to see all these cars.

Ok, back to us. We are in the Lake of the Ozarks area to meet up with my niece and her family who arrive on Monday.  We have not explored the area yet but what we have seen is very beautiful.  Our RV park is nice and has lots of trees.  I was amazed that our satellite was able to get set up, but it did.  Here are a couple of pictures of our site.

We had a minor glitch when we arrived.  After we got set up I went to turn on the air conditioner in the living area part of the trailer but the thermostat display was blank and the A/C, fan or anything would not turn on.  The A/C in the bedroom was working fine.  I went into troubleshooting mode.  I discovered there was a fuse in the thermostat and found it had blown.  I took the fuse from the bedroom thermostat and put it in and it also blew.  So now we have no working A/C’s.  I installed the old manual thermostats but they did not work. 

I decided I would go to Wal-Mart and get some fuses so I could troubleshoot some more.  As I drove to Wal-Mart I found an RV dealer just a mile away from our park, and they are a Jayco (our trailer brand) dealer.  I bought the fuses and talked with the service guy who gave me some ideas to try.  I tried his recommendations and it did not resolve the issue but, with enough fuses, I was able to narrow down the issue to the high setting on the thermostat.  When I moved the switch to high the fuse would blow.  At least now both A/C’s are working, but I still have an issue and I am out of fuses.  I go back to the RV dealer to buy some more fuses and follow up with service guy.  He calls an A/C tech and is told that it has to be a short in the green wire that runs from the A/C to the thermostat.  With that information I take the interior grille off the A/C unit and see that the wiring harness is rubbing against a bolt and a small section of the insulation has worn away.  I put some electrical tape on it and everything works fine!  All it cost was $2 in fuses.