Connect the tow bar, insert pins and clips, check. Connect the power plug to the motorhome, check. Connect the break-away cable, check. Set the auxiliary brake, check, Plug in the ICX cable, check. Plug in the power plug, check. Hit the test button……., hit the test button…….. what the!!!!! After resetting everything I check the remote in the motorhome to tell me what’s going on……. “brake light switch not connected!” UGH! Sure enough, I press the cars brake lights and NO brake lights! Grrrrrr! OK, we’re not licked yet. Our HHR tail lights have their own wiring, i.e. I have all the lights I need¸ we just can’t use the auxiliary brake system for the trip!!!!
That’s just another thing we’ll deal with when we get home.
Off we go. We pick up our “Country Sausages” we ordered at Kaufman’s and head out. We just turned onto Rt. 83 in York, PA, 37 miles out and BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!! The Low Air Buzzer and warning light are talking to us! The gauge drops to zero but we press on. I know there is air and the brakes are working fine. But OMG, do we need to listen to this!!!!!! There’s no place for us to pull over, shut the engine off and see if that will reset things. Then, the buzzer went off and the gauge showed full pressure!! What the??? Onward we press. Through Baltimore, one accident. Through D.C. and into VA, another accident, this one is really bad. We see a car covered with a sheet. Then further down 95 another accident, a semi jack knifed and took out about a dozen trees!
Five hundred plus miles later and we’re sitting at the Exit 139 Rest Area in SC.
Day two and we have just over four hundred miles to go. No more than a few miles on the road and BUZZZZZZZZ! Terrific! This time, in the time if took both Pat and I to react, I look down at the gauge and the noise stops and the gauge is back up to normal! That was the last time we heard it. Thank goodness!
This is it. We’re feeling the temperature rising and the sun higher in the sky. We left MA at 42’N by 71’ W driving to 28’N by 81’W. Simply put, we are over 1400 miles further south and roughly 400 miles west of Dracut. The other thing that tells us we’re in Florida is this…..
The “Love Bugs!”
As we closed in on our destination Pat longed for an “Earl of Sandwich” veggie sandwich. We thought we’d pull into DownTown Disney and stop for a “final meal on the road.” Nearing Exit 65 we decided against stopping with the motorhome and felt it a better idea to get home and return in the car. (Sorry Laura, you know I’d just have to get “lunch and eating” in my blog somehow!)
This is the time of year to visit central FL. There were plenty of parking spaces at DownTown Disney. Pat’s idea for lunch topped off the trip beautifully.
Oh, for all of you (soon to be) returning “snowbirds” they’re widening the curvy section of Sherberth Rd. just at the intersection of the entrance of the Animal Kingdom Lodge where Oceola Blvd. ends. Also, many of you remember that Panera Bread was planned for just across Rt. 192 from Miller’s Ale House. Well, the building is roughed and it won’t be long now, …and, we’ll have another place to eat!
We were welcomed back by this little fellow....
All that’s left to do now is clean out our “Old Friend,” and wash off all the bugs before they become part of the paint! We get to enjoy (ugh) these nasty creatures at least a couple times through the year. It took me longer to rub these buggers off than it did to wash the crud off the HHR!
It turns out there was nothing wrong with the HHR Brake lights! I'll have to review the Brake unit set-up to see if I may have missed something.
Just when you think you've got one problem solved another pops up. Our home electric hot water heater elements just crapped out!!!!!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGGGG!
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