Tuesday, June 2, 2015

I took the Navi to Bill Plemmons RV while I was in the Raleigh area to have them look at my AC to make sure the damage I did to the AC casing on top didn't extend further.  A few days earlier I noticed water dripping on the new wood floor when we used the AC and I wanted to get that checked out.  It turns out that I did do more damage than I expected and I need a new AC unit.   The good news is they can get it in 2-3 days and install it for me this week while I'm in the area.  It'll be a newer, more efficient unit that's also aerodynamic with a lower profile.  While it'll probably cost about $1500 to repair, they told me of another case where a guy was driving an RV and hit the AC unit on the roof so hard that it caused $30K in damage.

Reminds me of the incident that Greg and Chris and I ran into when I was dropping them off at the Raleigh/Durham airport.  The goal was to get them to the airport early enough where we could have a healthy breakfast in the Navi.  I headed towards 1 hour parking.  Before I made it to the toll booths designed to pay for the parking, there were signs hanging down saying, clearance was 9.5'.  My Navi needs 11' so Greg and Chris yelled for me to stop since I was paying closer attention to the booths ahead than those signs and I had stressed to Greg when he was driving that the Navi needs 11' clearance.....so be careful.   I was inches from hitting the 9.5' clearance sign.  So Greg got out to direct traffic, I threw the Navi in reverse and backed up on a 4 lane curved road with cars coming towards us so that I could move over 3 lanes to the exit lane to correct.  Just another fun incident In Search of a Simpler Life. 

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