27 May Later

Hi From Montana. WE got out of Wy at about 1130 this morning and headed for Billings, MT where I have the appointment in the morning to have the jacks and slides looked at.

Started getting ready to leave this morning, so got the book out to find out how to get the slides in without the aid of the pump. Had to dig out a come along something like the thing on a boat trailer that pulls the boat on the trailer. It hooks to the top step of the motorhome and has a strip with a hook that goes under the couch and hooks to the safety belts under there and you crank the slide in. Real simple??? Broke the first seat belt, then hooked to two more at one time that I found under there. I was only getting about a 1/4 inch at a crank, and looked like it was binding. The manager (Pete) came by and said he'd go out and push in as I crank. Well whatever he did I got about a foot in, then it was hard again. He went and found two BIG cowboys in their 4x4 muddy truck. They were about 6'3" each and 230# with boots, and cowboy hats. The made short work of the sliding of the slide. Almost pushed the motor home over.. Then had them help push in the bedroom slide, as it had no crank, just man power. Had to release pressure on the valves on each slide before we did the pushing. Any way, I left the crank hooked to the big slide so it wouldn't want to slide back out on the road and it didn't move. The bed room slide did move out about 2 inches, but we got here OK..

Got a nice paved campground with WiFi. First 12 hours free, $1.50 a day after that, and has 70 channel Cable. Real nice campground. Site is pretty level. Good thing. Now the jacks don't work either. They did before we left, but the gremlins got in it again. So nothing works now, which is probably best for trouble shooting in the morning.

The repair facility is less than a block on the same street we are on. Went down and checked where to bring the rig in the morning, so I'll be there at 0800. Not sure what we'll do with Pharaoh etc while they work on the rig, but we'll come up with something.

Well, it's time for me to give my troubles to the Lord (Lord Calvert Canadain Whiskey). heehee.

At least it isn't raining here now.

Semper Fi

Don, Amy & Pharaoh