We arrived in west Albany, NY on Sunday afternoon and parked alongside the Cummins service center building and plugged into their 50-amp electrical outlet. It poured down rain most of Sunday night but we were snug as a bug in our motorhome.
The Cummins service center opened at 7AM on Monday and I checked in to see about getting our 10KW diesel generator looked at. We thought it might be Tuesday before they could look at it because we already knew they had three appointments for generator work on Monday. However, the service writer came to me around 9AM and said one of his technicians would be taking a look at our generator in a few minutes.
Dan, our Cummins generator technician, spent most of Tuesday troubleshooting the generator. He couldn’t access the fuel pump because the frame rails blocked the fuel pump access panel. Dan had to take the generator completely out of the front of the motorhome and he found the problem. The problem was a kinked fuel line between the diesel generator fuel pump and the fuel filter.
On Tuesday morning Dan finished repairing the generator and installing it back into our motorhome. We went for breakfast at a nearby diner.
We got our motorhome back around noon and headed north up I-87 towards Plattsburg, NY. The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York were beautiful. We took a ferry and crossed Lake Champlain to Grand Isle, Vermont. We arrived at our campground, near the ferry dock, and celebrated setting foot in Vermont, our 48th state to visit.
We got settled in to our camp site in this very well-manicured campground. There were only a few RVs actually here, but several camping trailers which we thought may be used as summer homes. We had great views of Lake Champlain and could watch the ferries come and go as well as some fantastic sunsets.
We enjoyed lunch on Wednesday in nearby South Hope, VT where we both enjoyed a Maple Creemee for dessert. A creemee is similar to soft-serve ice cream, but with more cream and Vermont maple flavor. It was yummy!
We drove down to Burlington, VT, about 15-miles away, to pick up a few groceries. It is the home of the University of Vermont and the town reminded us of Boulder, Colorado with its university campus, several city business blocks of pedestrian walkway, and lots of people and students on bicycles.
We stopped for lunch before grocery shopping at Henry’s Diner in Burlington. It was established in 1925 and was very small but the food was very tasty.
We left Grand Isle this morning and drove a short 80-miles down to Randolph, VT to another campground. We’ll explore more of Vermont from here.
Steve & Julie Cornelius
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