Homesteading on a Blackberry Hilltop
October 7, 2024 Today was another busy day. The factory tried to put the spare back onto the RV and found the nut for the bolt had been crossed threaded and would no longer work. This morning, Bruce crawled under the RV to recut the nut for the bolt that holds the spare tire to […]
Read More Bruce Put RV Spare Tire Back into Its Place on the RVAugust 5, 2024 This morning, we got up at 8:00 AM and quickly got the RV packed up. Since we hadn’t unhitched the RV from the truck, it went quickly. We drove the 15 miles to the New Horizons Service Facility. We arrived right at 9:00 AM. I was impressed with our timing. We got […]
Read More At the New Horizons Service Facility for our MORryde SuspensionJuly 16, 2024 The lead mobile tech sent Bruce a text yesterday with the time he was going to come by today. He expected to get here around 9:00 AM. This morning, the mobile techs arrived at 8:45 AM. One tech went on the roof and removed the smashed A/C cover and replaced it with […]
Read More Current News – RV Brakes Checked and One Broken A/C Cover ReplacedJuly 11, 2024 We expected the RV mobile tech to come by tomorrow, instead he showed up this morning with the brake parts and skylight. The mobile tech was working on the brakes when we took Nox outside. A few days ago, Bruce had mentioned to the mobile tech that bright sunlight in the bathroom […]
Read More Current News – Repairs on RV ContinueJuly 1, 2024 Last week, Bruce called a RV mobile tech and arranged for an appointment for today to see about repairing the brakes. The mobile tech stopped by this morning around 8:45 AM. He took a look at the brakes and said the calipers would need to be replaced. He said he’d come back […]
Read More Starting to Replace the Broken Brakes on the RVJune 6, 2024 We got up on May 18 and once we got dressed and walked Nox, Bruce removed the rear camping side tire. It was the bouncing tire the man told us about on May 16. At each rest stop, when we checked the tire, it seemed worse. Bruce put the tire in the […]
Read More New RV Tire Picked Up in Hays, KansasJune 5, 2024 We got up and packed up the rig at Holiday Travel Park of Chattanooga. We headed back to I-75 N and once on I-75 N, we quickly got onto I-24 W at Exit 2. We dipped back down into Georgia. The Tennessee River was beautiful as we came back into Tennessee. We […]
Read More Second Day of Travel to Get to Golden, ColoradoMay 30, 2024 Back on April 20, 2024, we had a power failure while stopped at a Harvest Host. After we got to Scenic Drive RV Park, Bruce wanted to see if he could figure out what was causing the power failure before our next travel day. On April 23, he opened up the front […]
Read More Determined the Cause of the Power FailureMay 22, 2024 We had two adjusters; one for the truck and one for the RV. The adjuster for the truck came out and looked at our poor dented truck yesterday. He has already sent the quote. The RV adjuster is in Utah. He requested pictures of the damage. Yesterday, Bruce took the pictures the […]
Read More Current Status…Insurance QuotesMay 20, 2024 We headed to Golden, Colorado this morning. At the first rest stop, we discovered the taped on bag over the broken skylight had sailed away. At the next rest stop, we discovered the hole in the skylight was bigger. The plastic bags covering the broken fan covers stayed on the whole way, […]
Read More Current News…Insult to Injury
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