July 19th - Friday - Hot and Humid 100 degrees
We left home early Wednesday morning to get to Camping World in Syracuse, NY to have our Dish fixed for the upteenth time. We arrived there at 10:00 AM and finally at 5:30 PM we were told they needed to order parts and they wouldn't be in until next Thursday or Friday..... You wouldn't believe how many times we have heard this story. In fact our whole system was sent back and guaranteed it was fine, well guess not....
We left Syracuse and headed south and got to Cortland, NY and pulled into Cortland Country Music Park and Campgrounds and got their last spot. As Lou came out from registering, we heard a clap of thunder and it let down rain like no tomorrow. We sat inside until it let up and backed into our spot, that had turned to a mud hole. The mosquitoes found us immediately and had their dinner long before we did. Thankfully, we had roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and fresh sweet corn in the refrigerator ready to fix for dinner; however, we only had 30 amp, so couldn't use the A/C and the microwave. I decided, I would much rather have the A/C and use the range to cook dinner. It was 8:30 when we enjoyed our dinner.
We were on the road the next morning at 10:00 heading for East Stroudsburg, PA. We purchased this lovely Magellan Roadmate GPS that is designed for RVs so I put the address for our destination into it and we were off. The bad thing is Lou doesn't like any GPS, he is strictly a map man. So after we were almost to our destination, he made a decision to go a different route, well you guessed it, we really got mixed up and he finally asked me to get him back on track with the GPS so it took us much longer to arrive to our destination and we rolled in with nearly an empty fuel tank!
As we were getting registered, we ran into a couple that we had not seen in three years that was a delight and we were able to spend an evening with them catching up them on what had happened since we were together last.
When we stopped for lunch on the road, our refrigerator started beeping and flashing a code, so we turned it off until we could get here and check it out. I pulled out the book on it and looked up the code that was flashing and found that it had switch that was overheating and it had shut itself off. I had remembered that we had received a letter about the refrigerator being part of a recall, but once I checked the markers, it wasn't involved and thankfully, I had that letter with us. We called the company and a repairman and we have ordered the part, that will be without charge; however, we pay the service charges and the postage to have it "overnighted." It should be here on Tuesday. We are purchasing two bags of ice daily and so far all is going alright. We will just have to stay three extra days. I am sure with Camping World it would have been longer yet. Better now than when at Price Edward Island or Nova Scotia.
I took advantage of the time yesterday and cleaned out some of the inside cupboards and if it would get cooler, we could clean out the outside compartment, to get ready for our extended trip in 10 days.
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