We have modified our wonderful journey yet again!
We are now going to continue on a tour of Cummins Diesel Repair facilities throughout our great nation!
We left our excellent campsite at around 10 of the clock this morning, and cruised for 3 hours at a steady 60 mph.
We had the generator going, running the roof AC units, we were singing and enjoying our own company immensely, not a care in the world.
We pulled over for gas at a very RV friendly service station, did not make the mistake of turning off the engine, (coz we knew it would not re - start) and continued on our merry way.
By 5.00 pm local time, we had moved into the central time zone, we were only 6 miles from Sioux Falls South Dakota, having blasted 350 miles under our belts.
By 5.01 local time we were still 6 miles from Sioux Falls, and stayed there for 4 hours.
Yes, our wonderful friends at Cummins Calgary, who fixed our engine last week, obviously didn’t.
We broke down in the middle of a construction zone with the exact same symptoms of last week.
We were not happy campers.
To compound our pissedoffness, we called the local Cummins dealer, who told us that only one tow company in the area could accommodate our rig, and this information was duly passed on to AAA. They then spent the next 4 hours looking for a tow company who could tow us, only to finally call us back and inform us that the company we had told them of 4 hours previously were on their way!!
Anyway, this tow company, Ace Towing was brilliant. The owner himself showed up with his helper, and accomplished in less than an hour what the Canadian bozo from last week took nearly 4 hours to do. Very impressed with their professionalism.
So, we are now parked at Cummins Sioux Falls, where the night manager’s first question was concern for our well being by asking us if we wanted to sleep in the coach on their parking lot. So, first impressions are positive, and hopefully our optimism will be justified in the morrow.
Despite these negative minor set backs, we are both still having a blast, and our relationship has actually got stronger. There ain’t nothing we can’t conquer.
Wildlife watch today………………some crazy, inconsiderate truck driver type people, driving far too close to the white line we were 6 inches away from, and not a cop in sight, again, to see if we had a problem.
