New receiver hitch installed

It was 48° and cloudy when we got up this morning. We were up early this morning since we had a 9:00 appointment at John’s Tires to have a new receiver hitch installed. I drove the Vue and Mike followed in the RV and we arrived at John’s Tires a few minutes before 9:00.

While Mike waited for John to open up, I went to the post office to buy some stamps for our post cards. Before going back to John’s Tires, I stopped at the Bear Den Bakery and got a couple of their huge cinnamon rolls to take back to the RV for a late breakfast.

By 10:00 it had started to rain and the temp was still around 48°. Since the bolt holes on the new hitch didn’t line up with the old ones on the chassis for the old hitch, John had to fabricate a plate and bolt and weld it to the chassis and then mount the new receiver hitch to the plate. Mike helped John with the measuring, alignment and lifting of the new receiver hitch.

In addition to having a new receiver hitch installed, we had John weld a support on our steps that had broken. We had had our steps repaired last year in Fort Myers and the steps broke in the same place again.

Since we have a decreasing deductible on our RV insurance, our insurance company will reimburse us for the full amount of our bill.

We left John’s Tires a little before 3:00 and stopped at the Tesoro station and filled up the tanks in the RV and Vue before returning to the campground. We paid $4.629 a gallon for regular.

When we returned to the campground we saw that most of the RVs staying in the campground had left while we had been gone.

When we plugged back in to the campground’s electric, we discovered a problem with our Energy Management Panel. It’s malfunctioning and not allowing full use of our 50 amp system.

It’s been steadily raining all day and the temp has stayed around 48° all day. Hopefully, it won’t be raining tomorrow when we leave here and go to the ferry terminal.