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| leaving the bad weather behind |
Well it’s our last day here at Home farm in Burnham and the
rains have been constantly chucking it down all afternoon and evening, so tomorrow
we will be more than ready to start our trip south towards our last port of
call in the UK, the Riverside Caravan Park in Plymouth, before boarding the
ferry for Santander on Sunday.
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| Ready to roll from Burnham |
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| What it was a western weekend!!! |
The short respite from the rain this morning at least it gave
me the chance to check tyre pressures, tighten wheel nuts on the trailer, clean
the RV, top up water and check oil levels. Kay’s completed all the washing, ironing
and has been tidying up the inside of the RV.
Not everything has gone to plan; we’d been having hit or
miss reception on the Camos 4 Satellite dome over the past few months. At first
we thought this was something to do with obstacles getting in the way of the satellite
signal and then we thought it might be a loose connection, it was only yesterday
after a conversation with the original fitter Garry at Chase RV that I found
out the unit has a fault.
Luckily after a quick phone call first thing this morning to
Road Pro (the company that supplied the unit) we have arranged for a new
controller unit and some replacement springs for the dome to be delivered ASAP
to The Riverside Caravan Park where I can do the update and repair myself.
The RV’s radio has also decided to pack up, it appears the Ariel
is not working, so my next task is to find out where it’s come loose, I’ve a
feeling it’s on the roof as it may have been pulled lose when the satellite dome
was fitted, god when will these niggling little problems end. Still that’s the
joys of American RV’s if everything is working fine you can guaranty some big fault
is waiting just around the corner.
The weather men are predicting an early snow fall in the UK which
they say will be due in the early weeks of October and have given a longer forecast
of a severe winter, so like good snowbirds it’s time to get the hell out of
here.
At Riverside we will be meeting up with Mike & Paula, two
friends that we met at Briarfields. They will be on the same ferry as us and
heading in the same direction, it will be interesting to see how many others we
will meet on board doing the same thing. We are praying that there will be a
nice high over the Bay of Biscay and that the ferry crossing will be a calm
one.
I have had some feedback on the forums from other RV users
about my concerns relating to the RV’s LPG consumption and have been encouraged
that I won’t get a true reading until we’ve got some more mileage under our
belts, so this trip should highlight the true cost of running the RV we are
getting 1.3 miles to the litre of LPG and we should be getting 1.7.
Our final top up of fuel will be in Plymouth so that when we
hit the docks in Santander we will not need to go looking for an LPG pump.
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