It was good to be in one place after our big trip around the US. We were at Crescent bar RV Campground for 11 days, and left there on June 10th. We traveled 100 miles to Yakima to visit our daughter Kim & family. We were fortunate to be able to stay at our son-in-law's parents' house in Yakima.
We boondocked there for 8 nights and stayed at our daughter's house in Selah while they took a mini vacation to Las Vegas. We had a good time catching up with our granddaughter's Ally & Jessi.
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Then on June 18th, we headed over the mountains to Monroe, WA and the Thunderbird Thousand Trails RV Campground. After a 162 mile, drive, we checked into space #17. It was a FHU site for 12 days.
They have upgraded the park since we were here. They now have new electrical to every site, new 50/30 Amp power peds.
While here we visited with our son Tim & family in nearby Snohomish.
Brisket time on the Trager!
Our Son Tim, master Trager meister.
Nana and Ryker
On June 30th, we moved on to the Thousand Trails RV Campground in La Conner, WA. It was a 68 mile travel day, but not without some issues. We arrived just after noon and they seemed to be pretty busy checking folks in for the weekend. We drove around the park, through the pretty narrow roads looking for a spot to park. There wasn't a lot to choose from because they were pretty full. We drove through a couple of loops, that had brush and small trees brushing off the side of our RV, with no open spots. Then we found a loop that had an opening. Site 115 was our choice.
Man, was it a tight back-in spot! It took 3 tries to get it in, and we finally did, but it was just not my day! I didn't know that you could back a travel trailer in and cause your truck to make contact with the RV. Yep, I put a big goober in one of our big dually fenders. That sucked big time! Thank goodness no damage to our RV.
But no damage to our rig.
But the 'bad' day wasn't done yet.
While Donna was setting up the inside and I was connecting everything up outside, the next issue happened. When I plugged into the 30 Amp ped power, Donna verified it was good by looking at out Progressive Industries EMS-HW50C display. Then turned on our AIMS Power 2500 Watt Pure Sine Wave Inverter/Charger. Then while I was hooking up the water, I could hear the inverter beeping and the fan cycling on and off. I went inside the RV to find out the inverter was inverting and not using shore power. I turned the inverter off and checked the incoming power on the remote display. The ped was giving us 121 VAC on both legs, and no errors. I turned the inverter back on and ... there was a big 'click or clunk, from our EMS and the inverter went back into 'invert mode'. I got my meter out and verified the power at the ped wasn't an issue, and the power going into the inverter was good. After killing the inverter outputs and we still had the EMS clicking and going into invert mode problem, I determined the EMS was the most likely culprit. So I pulled the breaker panel out and un-wired the EMS. And now everything works as it should. Issue eliminated...but now running without EMS protection. It is what it is...
We went to visit our son that night and when we got back, found that our rig was running in invert mode. Oh, No! Did I disconnect our EMS for nothing? No power from the ped? I went out and verified that our power ped had no 30 amp power. But I did find that the 110 VAC outlet was just fine so I used an adapter and now our house is running off 15 Amp, 110 VAC. Probably just a bad 30 Amp breaker in the power ped.
We have now been running off of the 15 Amp 110 VAC plug for 5 days. We have even used the microwave, TV, electric hot water heater, and Keurig coffee pot with no problems (one at a time). I am amazed. But I am glad we do not need an air conditioner right now.
But we are enjoying the area of La Conner, WA. It is beautiful here beside the San Juan Islands.
Still on the lookout for a house, or some land that we could buy. Let's just say, the market just plain sucks right now. Guess we will just keep looking.... and buying lottery tickets.
The Fergs out .......
