HOMEWARD BOUND

May 11th - Cloudy 65 degrees

We were up early and ready to leave Elizabeth City, NC, driving on route 17 to purchase gasoline for the RV, as the base was putting in a new service station and the pumps were not working properly we had to drive off base for gasoline. We found a Seven-Eleven with gasoline at $3.79, filled the tank and we were off.

We had just passed into Virginia and a car came up on the passenger side of the RV and gave me a signal that something was wrong with the car, so as soon as we could stop, Lou pulled off and we found that we had had a flat tire and it was off the rim and we were traveling on the rim. I used our On Star and called for assistance and while Lou unpacked our trunk to get to the “so called spare tire” a repairman was dispersed to our location. By the time he arrived Lou had the tire and rim off. Another kind gentleman stopped by to give assistance and he was kind enough to locate the closet General Motors garage for us and provided us with their telephone number and I immediately called them and told the parts department what we needed and he suggested we come in and see what needed to be done. Thanks to our kind gentleman that stopped by, I programmed the address of Priority Chevrolet into our GPS and we were off. We arrived and were greeted upon our arrival. Lou and I unhooked our car from the RV and a work order was prepared. It was noted that there were two outstanding recalls for our car and that was also scheduled to be done. The rim had to be ordered which they felt would arrive on Thursday afternoon. They assured us they would call us as soon as the car was ready to travel. We left our car and departed for the closet RV camping area and that brought us to Little Creek Naval Base.

We called to make a reservation; however, no one answered so we made the decision to drive the RV out and hope we could get in, so we programmed that address into the GPS and arrived there around 2:00 PM and we found that they only accepted reservations, Lou commented that it looked like they had open spots and they relented and gave us a spot. We backed into a spot and got set up and had some lunch and turned on the television and we both found it hard to believe but we both sat down on the sofa and fell asleep and woke up and found NCIS was on for several hours and we sat there and watched it and enjoyed every minute of it. They were all episodes that we hadn’t seen.

We did fix our fresh peas and potatoes with chicken breasts and did it ever taste good and then I washed the dishes and we went right back to watching NCIS and we went to bed and watched the last episode in bed. Truly a relaxing day after what started out to be very stressful situation.

As you can see in the picture, Estee is in the passenger seat and ready to start on her journey again. Wonder if she knows this time it will be a long ride and the final destination will be home.