Vacation!????

OK So the background: Work hellish, very tired no time off......etc., etc., etc. I decided that this weekend we would actually take our Friday off and go outside. After looking at weather forecasts and all I decided that it might be just the time to take the RV out to the coast and watch the storm waves!

Of course it has been about a year or more since the RV has been used so first thing was to get up and see if it would start - It did but only when I boosted the battery with the house batteries. The engine battery was completely dead. I was not really surprised by this as I had hooked a charger up to it for a few days and went out one morning to the smell of overheated battery/ charging system..... Anyway got it started and tidied up a bit. Next step was to take it off to the car wash and scrap off all the dirt or at least the dirt that was reachable and not holding important things together. Then back home oops on the way buy and install battery. Pack and head to the gas station - check oil fill gas fill tires pheeewwww finally on the road!

The car was a little noisy and rough but not bad. We got on past Olympia and headed for the ocean and it was really sounding noisy something was not right with an axel or tire or something. We stopped but couldn't see anything. Finally decided to head back towards olympia. Soon after the turn we blewout the front driver side tire. Well at least I figured we knew what had made the horrible noise. It was the tire... Unfortunately we could not get the bloody lug nuts off! Bent the wrench trying to jump up and down on it but the bolts would not budge. A nice sheriff stopped and tried to help but he did not have a bigger wrench and so we eventually had him call the local tire guys - Le Schwab for help.

Long story shorter - They came and changed the tire

Once is forgivable

So cell phones ringing - outloud in restaurants! Really?!?! Once is forgivable - hey we all forget to turn cell to vibrate sometimes. But seriously FOUR times are you insane?! I was ready to ask the idiot women and her moronic pseudo friend if they needed help figuring out how to silence their techno wiz toy. Luckily it did not ring again or else I would have gone over there. In the meantime I double checked my own cell phone to make sure it was set on stun!