Ve Day 54- Natural Bridge, VA
You’ll notice that we’re including our present location in the daily masthead; this is due to a recommendation from Geri, who was reviewing some of our recent posts, but couldn’t figure out exactly where this all went on. Don and I think it’s a good idea.
Today being a travel day, the morning brought a lot of activity. Don took me for a nice hike up the mountain, and I got to look into some places that I had discovered on my previous trek up here. Again, we sat for awhile at the top and just enjoyed the morning, which was sunny, though not at all warm. Before we left, we had to take a run into the little village of Crozat, a few miles away, to find some new sunglasses for Don, who had broken his only set. Cute little town, like most around here, founded by an Officer in the Napoleonic Army who had emigrated to America, built a railroad, founded a town and contributed his skills to the betterment of this country. This area is full of great stories like this.
When Don got the rig started, he was unnerved and upset because the jack alarm was ringing again, even though he had replenished the fluid in the jacking reservoir. He checked the jacks and found that one of them was leaking a lot of fluid. Always something. We headed out with the alarm bonging and Geri complaining about it. Don said that we would have to find a repair facility to get it fixed. Geri started researching all available repair shops along the way to our destination, and found one. We pulled into it, waited for the crew to get back from lunch, explained our problem, and were back on the road in a little over an hour, with problem solved. They even got the radio partially operational, which it hadn’t been since the great electrical problem a few days ago. Geri was particularly effusive in her thanks, since it meant no more dong-dong in our travels.
Shortly after, we pulled into our new RV Park, a KOA, in a nice site just above the office and showers. We took a walk on a nature trail, which was interesting, though the activities of the afternoon had interfered severely with my normal napping routine. We got into the truck then, and did a tour of the surrounding towns, Glasgow, Buena Vista and Lexington. All lovely little towns in a beautiful setting in the Virginia hills. I think we’ll be seeing more of them in the next couple of days. Back to the rig, and Don cooked a ham and yam dinner, with asparagus on the side. Not much left on the plates. A little TV, some blog work, and to bed. We should have some good adventures tomorrow!