July 19, 2023 – Traveling with Rich & Julie
Living in a motorhome full-time is no more glamorous than living in a sticks and bricks house. Driving your house down the bumpy, and many times “under construction” highways across the country takes a pretty big toll on the unit and the stuff inside. It is all part of the process.
Breakdowns are common. Many times our issues are minimal and affordable to fix. Rich and I have learned to fix many things ourselves as most full-time RVer’s do. This time I don’t know though. I try to stay positive but we are looking at an electrical issue.
I live my life under the assumption that things always work out for the best and this issue will too…eventually. I may just have to be patient. Schedules change regularly and I am always mindful when I make reservations to note what the policy is on cancellations.
We finally found someone to come and hook up a computer to the engine to find out what error codes there were, and one of the fixes is only $65. We will start there and work our way up to the expensive fixes if we have to.
We are scheduled to do some traveling next week with the grandkids before leaving for a long time on Monday, July 31. We hope to be fixed and ready to go by then, but our schedule always remains flexible.
I also want to mention that I don’t feel like we have any more problems in this 20-year-old RV than some of the newer units. We have met many people in a lot newer units who have had some pretty serious problems too. We hope to stay in this one as long as it is still fixable and gets us from point A to point B.
To anyone out there who is a mechanic I would like to say that there needs to be more RV mechanics who are willing to come to where you are broke down. We struggle with calling many places sometimes before finding help.