June 1

We’ll be leaving Kissimmee on Wednesday and I thought I’d update our blog on some of the things we’ve done here in Kissimmee.

First we went to Tire Center in Orlando to have the front right tire checked for leakage. We had picked up a screw in it on the way south. Good news – the screw hadn’t penetrated far enough to cause any air leakage or damage to the tire. The balance weights on the front tires had come off on our trip south (we had the tires balanced in Dothan in April), so we had the front wheels balanced. We drove I-75 when we went north to Toledo and then south back to Kissimmee – most of I-75 was really rough.

We’ve been having problems with our A/C not running right. Mike called the manufacturer of our energy management system, Progressive Industries, and explained the problem. After talking with one of the owners, Robert Schneider, Mike found out that the chip on the circuit board was the problem. We have 2 compressors for the A/C & when the 2nd compressor came on the EMS would cut off the shore power. The Robert said they had upgraded the chip on the circuit board and he would send us a new upgraded circuit board & to send our old one to them. Mike installed the new circuit board & no more A/C problems! The only thing it cost us was the postage to send the old board back to Progressive. What great service from Progressive Industries (the warranty on the EMS had expired a year ago)!

Another thing we had done was to have the headlights on the RV polished. They had discolored with the sun as a lot of headlights do. Mike saw an ad in a flyer for a fellow who would come out and polish the headlights. The cost was $60 and we had a $5 coupon from the flyer, so it was $55. It took about 1 hour to polish the headlights and they look like new! Mike is going to figure a way to make a cover for them to use when we’re parked, so they won’t turn brown.

The really big news is we have invited some friends of ours who have a motorhome to come with us on our trip to Canada. Symphony and Al live in Collinsville, AL and we’ve stayed at their house a few times. Mike and Symphony’s families lived next door to each other in Lake Worth. Al and Symphony will meet up with us in northern Michigan later this month. They also have a Bichon, so Tinker will have a friend along too.