Wednesday our touring vacation officially ended, all good things come to an end and it was time to head for home. However, before we head for home we will visit family in Minnesota.
We had a short drive to Uncle' Earle's place in Minnesota and spent the next few days visiting family.
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| Minnesota Fam! |
Our Minnesota (and California) Family 🩷.
Sunday we woke to 30F, and snow!
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| Leaving Uncle Earle's |
We planned to depart about 06:30 but one of my leveler jacks refused to retract. This is the same jack that has caused issues in the past. I fooled around with it for about 20 mins and it finally retracted.
It was an easy drive to brother Richie's in Minooka, Il., we arrived about 17:00 and had a nice spaghetti dinner with Rich, Kris and Mike.
Rich, Mike and I played poker until around 22:00, I was happy to take their money for once 😊.
Monday, as we readied to leave Rich and Kris's my left front leveler jack refused to retract again....I fooled around with it and swore to make it retract.
The company that manufactures my levelers is EQ Systems in Michigan. I sent them an email on Sunday night asking for help, but had not heard anything. Since they are kind of on the way home, I plotted my route to their factory.
I went in and basically said, I have a problem and need help.
After a discussion and demonstrating the issue, they called in a tech and he diagnosed the problem to a bad controller, which he replaced. I paid $3500 for the levelers in 2023, the bill for the controller replacement was $1000! I protested a bit and they made the bill ~$750, but since I had this same problem back in 2024, it still seemed a bit much. Sometimes you just have to bend over, grab your socks and say thank you! It would have been very difficult to diagnose at home, I don't have a spare controller to just pop in and try..... We were happy to get it fixed and back on the road.
The EQ diversion took about 2.5 hours making our intended destination of Cracker Barrel in Erie, PA a late arrival, so I picked a Harvest Host on the east side of Cleveland and requested a stay, they approved immediately.
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| Halcyon Ledges |
We pulled into Halcyon Ledges just about 19:00.
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| Halcyon Ledges |
After a video call with the grand kids, we went in and had a nice meal. Nice people, good food.
Tuesday, we expect to make it back to Vermont.
All good things must come to an end. Always good to visit family but I’m ready to head east.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back home. Was this your longest road trip? Seems like it.
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