Rolling with the Punches

Things don't always go as smooth as we would like, but since we have the time to solve problems without a great deal of stress we're rolling with the punches.

After a quiet night at Farmington Freightliner's back lot, they managed to squeeze us into the shop about lunchtime. The bad news was they work on air brakes, not hydraulic. Still, they were great people to deal with and didn't even charge us for the diagnostics. Highly recommend this shop and people.

So, off we went to a local rv park, Mom and Pop RV Park, to make some phone calls and find someone that can help us.


It isn't a fancy park, pretty much gravel with paved sites and picnic tables. But the power is good and we have water and sewer. Yay!!! I can do laundry again. Plus, if you pay for three nights you get the fourth night free. Works perfectly for our situation.

Our phone calls resulted in a definite maybe on the brake job. We quickly unhooked again and ran over to the Rocky Mesa Auto & Truck Service to have them look at it. We didn't want to sit here all weekend and then find out they couldn't do the job. Hooray! They can do it, hopefully at 7 am Monday morning. We'll be there.

Back at the park, we settled in for the weekend. Doug set up our garden outside. I've already had one strawberry and the plants are looking very healthy. I think they like traveling!

In back of the coach, Doug set up the other part of our garden with the satellite dish. We have two hanging tomato plants. One is full of baby tomatoes and the other is struggling.

It's nice not having to be upset by changes in our travel plans and it gives us a chance to see a little bit of the Farmington, NM area.