New Koni shocks installed

We got up at 7:00 this morning and Mike walked over to the office here at Brazel's a little after 8:00 to let them know we are here for our 10:00 appointment to have new shocks installed.

We stowed the slides and Mike had disconnected the water and we waited for a technician to walk over to drive the motorhome into one of the bays.

While we were waiting for our appointment, Mike called the Ft. Lewis RV Park office and made a reservation for us for a week starting today when we leave Brazel's.

Tinker couldn't understand why we were just sitting around on the sofa and not going anywhere since the RV was all ready to start driving.

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Since we weren't going anywhere, Tinker decided to go sit up on the dash or "the sun porch" as we call it.

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A little after 10:30 a technician came over with an armload of plastic sheets that he laid down on the steps and carpet for him to walk on. He then did a walk-around to be sure everything was disconnected (Mike had already disconnected the electric cord) and that he wouldn't drive over anything.

We left Tinker in his crate in the RV and Mike and I went into the office to sit in the waiting room there. Mike went out to take photos of Rob installing the Koni FSD shocks.

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It took about an hour to have the old shocks removed and the new ones installed. Our bill for the new shocks came to $1105.00.

Before we left Brazel's we had our on-board and  2 portable propane tanks filled for $2.75 a gallon. We left Brazel's at 12:15 and passed by the Great Wolf Lodge on the way to I-5.

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We stopped at a rest area near Sunnydale at 12:30 to fix lunch and were back on the road by 1:00.

We got back to McChord AFB at 2:00 and stopped at the gas station to get gas in the RV ($3.839 a gal) before driving out to the FamCamp to get the car.  We then drove south on I-5 to the Ft. Lewis North Gate.

We checked in at the office and were assigned site #102 on Loop 100. We have full hook-ups (50 amp) and we are 2 sites over from The Commons which houses the bathrooms/showers, laundry and wireless internet station.

We're paying $22.50 a day here at Ft. Lewis RV Park.