Sunday, October 03, 2010
Adventures on the Moon
The one for-sure destination of our trip was Craters of the Moon National Monument in southern Idaho. We arrived midday on Friday and went to look for a spot in the campground. Like in many nationals the campground was not designed for RV's but we finally found a reasonably level spot that worked for us and settled in. Alas, when I put the slide out, there was a clunk, and when I tried to retract it--no luck. Our slide out was broken. We can't drive the rig with it out. Our nice manual explained how to manually retract the slide--it didn't work. Did I mention that Craters of the Moon is clear and gone in the middle of nowhere and there is no cell phone reception.
So Kit went off to the Visitor Center to see if he could use their phone to call Good Sam. We have been paying for Emergency Road Service for years and this is the first time we had to use it. Suffice it to say--it was not easy. First Kit had to convince the Good Sam rep. that we were NOT in American Falls. Then there were many phone calls while she tried to find a repair person any where close. This took virtually all afternoon during which time Kit mostly stood around and waited for return phone calls and I toured the exhibits and watched all the movies. Getting close to 5 pm the lady (at Good Sam) told Kit she was turning him over to a supervisor--luckily finally they found someone in Burley (one and a half hours away) who could come in the morning. AMEN. At least we got to enjoy the evening guided nature walk and program.
At shortly after 7am Saturday our man arrived and we were fixed by 8 am giving us the whole day free. It turned out to be a tiny pin which had broken into 3 very tiny pieces and which he luckily was able to replace. The business he worked for by the way was called EZ Money. We had a laugh over this but apparently they started out as a pawn shop and expanded from there. We would surely recommend them.
More later.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 1:21 PM 
