We left Labelle, Florida a week ago, on Tuesday March 12th. We headed up to Lazydays RV Resort in Seffner for a 3-night stay and to visit Julie’s Aunt Jo and to visit my sister Cathy.
We started having serious electrical problems with our motorhome the night before we left LaBelle. We smelled what we thought was an electrical wiring burning smell but couldn’t find where it was coming from. The morning we left we noticed that we were getting 120-volts on one leg, but only 7-volts on the other leg of our 50-amp shore power connection. We thought it was a problem with the RV park electrical.
When we got to Seffner on Tuesday and plugged in, we had the same only 7-volts on one leg symptom. When we ran our generator, the AC power was okay. We contacted a mobile RV repair service and the technician stopped by late-Tuesday afternoon. The problem was that our Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) had gone out. He ordered a replacement ATS on Wednesday and had planned to replace our faulty one on Thursday. Meantime, we had to run our generator for electrical power, except for “quiet hours” in the park (10PM to 7AM).
On Wednesday we stopped by Aunt Jo’s house in Safety Harbor for a visit and took her out to lunch. She turns 92 this month and it’s always interesting to visit with her.
That evening we met my sister Cathy at the Columbia Restaurant in the historic Ybor City area of Tampa. Established in 1905, it’s one of our all-time favorite restaurants. We especially like the 1905 salad and sparkling white wine sangria. Both are handmade at your table. Any of the numerous entrees are also very good. We enjoyed catching up with Cathy.
We waited all-day Thursday at the RV park for the service technician because he thought the part would be delivered mid-day and he’d have time to do the repairs. However, he called late that day and told us he got the part okay but couldn’t come until Friday morning…the day we were leaving for Tallahassee.
The technician finally came on Friday around 8AM with the part. Four hours and $800 later, we were good to go.
On Saturday we drove from Tallahassee to Pensacola where we stayed at the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angel Recreation Area for two nights. It was our first time there and it turned out to be a really nice Family Campground with a great view of Perdido Bay on the Florida-Alabama border.
We met Holly and Jackie, their husbands, and children for dinner on Sunday afternoon in Pensacola Beach at Flounder’s Chowder House. Julie used to babysit Holly and Jackie back in 1987-88, when they were 5 and 7, when we were stationed in Woodbridge, England. We saw them in the early-90s in Germany but hadn’t seen them since, over 25 years ago. It was fun to catch up with them and to meet their families.
We drove to Biloxi, Mississippi yesterday for a two-night stay. Last night we enjoyed dinner with our friends Paul and Darlene at a nearby Cajun seafood restaurant. The seafood was okay, but the service was just plain awful.
We leave Biloxi tomorrow morning and head to Beaumont, Texas for an overnight stay, on our way to south Texas and the Rio Grande Valley.
Steve & Julie Cornelius
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