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Hello and welcome to our blog. We are Lynn and Glenn Schultz. Retired from our former life and starting out on our new adventure. Lynn is a former Executive Secretary, Actress, Makeup Designer, and Mom. Glenn is a former Carpenter, Salesman, Teacher, Actor, Director, and Dad. We now travel around the country pursing our hobbies and doing some acting along the way.. So if you’re interested feel free to follow along. And if you want a break from your daily routine why not join us for a few days or even a week. See you down the road.

Friday, October 24, 2014

Tucson and RV repairs 101

Like I said we headed down to Tucson to have some work done on our home. If you think about it we have been very lucky. We have pulled our home over 8,000 miles and this is the first time that we really needed some work done. Now an RV like ours is no different than your house or apartment. The plumbing is the same as is the electrical except that we also have a 12 volt system running through our home. We have skylights, exterior siding of a sort, and our home has a rubber roof. A big awning, a basement, fridge, oven, furnace, and a water heater. See, just like your place. Except our place has bounced, banged, and jolted down the roads of America for 8,000 miles.

Oh, and we also have rooms that slide out 3 and 4 feet on hydraulic driven systems. That is what brings us to Tucson. About a month ago as we were opening our slides we heard a bump followed by a bang. I just so happened to be next to one of them on the outside and noticed something fall from the bottom of the slide. Hmmmm. That's not good. It looked like a tooth from a metal gear.

So here we are at Lazydays, and while they are at it let's fix a few small things, all covered by the extended warranty, while we are at it. Yep, it was the gear that moves the slide and the rail that it moves on. Let;s order parts. Now I can go into all the details about this but I won't. Suffice to say it has been almost a month and the parts are arriving tomorrow.

Maybe it was a perfect storm of happenstance. or the gods just don't like us anymore, but what could go wrong has. Moving a plant, had to make the parts, shipped to Lazydays in Tampa Fl, instead of Tucson AZ, wrapped up with a major traffic accident involving the UPS truck on it's way here. The parts still aren't here, but we are going on faith that they will be tomorrow so we are taking it in, in the morning.

People who have been doing this longer then us know about this. This is not unusual, this is normal. But you know what? Our saying is "We have to be somewhere". And Tucson is a very nice place to be as is the KOA park that we are staying in. So we roll with the punches and trudge on with our lives. Hehehe.
Our view

Lazydays/KOA Office, bar, and restarant. 

Relaxing at  KOA. 

Till next time. See you down the road.

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