Morning came at 3am so I could run Sammi and Missy over to My Church for thier ride to the airport to begin thier mission trip to South Dakota. Alex joined us at 4:45am and we were on the road by 5am.
Once in the Pa mountains we hit torrential rainfall. As I've mentioned before, we always seem to hit heavy rain driving over the mountains in Pa! At one point we actually pulled over and stopped it was rianing so hard.
A short side bar about the 1999 Ford Triton V10 chassis that our motorhome is built on. The Injector Coils on the engine are relatively exposed to the elements and by a fluke or design flaw when it rains a lot, those coils get wet and have a tendency to break or misfire. This in turns causes the engine to run rough and eventually fail.
After a nice lunch at the Flying J truck stop, where we get gas, the infamous "Service Engine Soon" light came on, almost like clock work. Now since Duct Tape is a campers best friend and repairs everything.... See the great job I did using it to fix the shelf unit above the door entrance... Daniel and I set off to see what we could do to resolve our situation. Sure enough, a little tape soon made our problem go away. Here below you can see the tape in action fixing our engine problem.
On the serious side though, I called to a Ford Dealership in Elkhart, Indian where I knew from previous issues we could get it fixed. Made an appointment for the next day and then changed our overnight reservation from Streetsboro, Ohio to Elkhart, Indiana. This added another 250 miles and almost 4 hours to our already long day! But who needs sleep. So we pushed on for a total of 640 miles in one day. My back felt great!
The good news, we were able to adjust our plans and spend the whole day Friday exploring Elkahrt, the RV capital of the world!
We arrived at the KOA campground around 6 pm and the boys went straight to the pool for a swim, while I worked on dinner. After dinner, I went straight to bed, exhausted while the boys played quietly for awhile.
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