Yesterday we waited, and waited, and waited until Bryce showed up - about 3pm, the technician we called on Tuesday when we got to the campground, to come look and see if he could fix the RV boo-boo. Not realizing he had to travel from the western side of Zion National Park to us, if there were no traffic (sight seer's) he could make it in about 1 1/2 hours. Instead - took him 3. We felt bad he had to go back the same way - another 3 hours - once he got done. But - Dave was very impressed with what Bryce did. He told Dave that this repair is something he's done in the past, in fact - he has repaired this same thing 3 times in one RV - telling the man what he's doing wrong but Bryce said - goes in one ear and out the other. Said the man over fills his fresh water tank, the water falls into the pan, the pan drops from the weight. If we ignored getting this fixed, Dave would have to have gotten under the belly each time we move, close the slides the rope it back and forth, drive and hope it doesn't break through the rope, then get to the new spot, untie the rope so we could open the slides, then tie it back up while sitting. Don't want critters to get it! And - since no support on the fresh water tank - that would fall too!
To give you an idea what happened: we traveled on some pretty rough road through the Navajo reservation area of north east Arizona on our way to here in Utah. There is a pan that covers the fresh water tank, think of it as a large plastic wash tub, and that is secured by bolts to the underbelly of the RV. Since we were jostling around so much, and we were NOT carrying any water in the fresh water tank which therefore didn't have the weight in it, the jostling just broke loose the bolts and the pan dropped down. Fortunately, when Dave stopped for diesel fuel in Page, AZ, did his walk around, saw insulation draped outside and on the support of the jacks that drop down to support the RV once it is in a resting position, looked closer and saw that the pan was down. He was able to tie it back up, weaving the rope back and forth between each side and tied it off - enough to hold until we got here. We were lucky - this thing could have broken and fallen on the ground - and there would have been so much more to fix. After an hour of retying it up, supporting it with different materials, then rescrewing all back up, we are good to go. And Bryce said - bad design. Well, now we have good design!
Tomorrow we are off the the north rim of the Grand Canyon. About 2 hour drive one way. Will be long day, but worth it. Still more to do here - we were hoping for a thunderstorm today, cloudy and windy, but no rain. Shoot. We also want to go to see a slot canyon - Utah has the most slot canyons in the world. Oh - and a little tib-bit newsy thing: Remember Pipe Spring Monument we went to? Well, the campground that we are staying at - the owner's grandfather bought the ranch from the Church way back when. Talk about a small world!
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