When you go to pick a day to drive and RV for 250 miles this is not the day to choose. We awoke about 4:00 this morning looking forward to our trip to Fries, VA. No sooner than we got out of bed we noticed that it was raining. Yeah, that is what I wanted to see. Optimistically, I thought that if we got started we might be able to drive to the leading edge. We left the place before the "sun" was rising in RAIN. The interstate was vacant. That was a good thing and it stayed that way until Knoxville. About 1/2 way across Knoxville we heard a noise that made us think that we were having a downpour on us. It was raining still but not a downpour. Off and on this noise continued, except as we drove past the downtown area we heard a pop and all of a sudden we had no power in the engine. I could only drive about 30 mph. Luckily, we were about a 1/4 mile from an exit. As we exited we saw a truck repair place open. That was good, nearly. They did not want to help us so they directed us to another place 2 1/2 miles on down the road. This was just the place to go. They were the service company for our engine. As I told the service manager what happened, he told me that he could get us into one of the service in a short while. He did just as he said he would. Their first thought was to look for a hose that might have come disconnected. In a short time there it was a hose disconnected. We could just think WOW we will be on our way in short order. NOT. When they first hooked back we took it our for a test drive. About 2 miles later there was the noise again. Back to the service center. The hose had worked its way back off. This time they spent a little more time sliding the hose on and tightening(with an air powered wrench). Back to the road for a test drive. This time SUCCESS!
After a 3 hour delay back to the road. STILL RAINING. We still had 4 + hours of driving left. NO problems during the rest of the trip. The last 20 miles were mostly on 2 lane roads and the last 8 were on a narrow curvy road to Fries. What neat little town. As and old company town most all of the home were the same, and were set in a planned community. The New River flows right beside the community. It is about 250 yards wide and probably no deeper than 3-4'. Our RV park is set in a beautiful little canyon with a small stream through it. The owner is unbelievably nice. He presented us with some muffins that his wife had made for us. Looking forward to then in the morning.
The rain finally stopped. After supper we walked through the town back the RV. The sky was beautiful with some great colored clouds.
Lots of pictures were made today but the inept photographer forgot to bring a way of downloading them. This fellow will find a solution soon and you will find photos of our day.
The first two photos here are of Fries, VA. You are looking at the entire town in these two shots. third is the sky after the rains left.
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