Our Trip

As you can see our trip to California got off to a rocky start. We left home Thursday afternoon (July 17th), we were planning on staying in Winnemucca Thursday night but we never made it. About 20 miles out of McDermitt NV, we started to loose power. 1st the radio/CD player went out, We were listening to a book on tape. It's the only way to travel, I mean 10 hours of nothing but sage brush. Anyway, the next to go was the lights on the dash board, and then the power to the windows. Gary pulled into the Casino parking lot in McDermitt, he was smart enough to pull to the very back, out of the way. As soon as he turned off the engine, we were stuck. The alternator was gone. We knew we weren't going to get anything fixed that night since it was after five, so we just had dinner at the casino and went to bed. The next morning We called the Ford dealer in Winnemucca and the cranky parts man said that he doubted he could find an alternator anywhere. So we called my dad and had him look for one in the Boise Valley. We had a couple of people tell us that we should call the NAPA parts store 30 miles away in Orvada. The person there said that they could get the part but not till after 5, so we called the Ford dealer again, this time we got the nice parts man. He checked the inventory, they had what we needed. So we called dad and told him he didn't need to find the part and drive 2 hours to bring it to us. The next thing was to call our emergancy road service to get a tow truck. The tow truck finally came around 1:30 and took Gary and the Truck to Winnimucca, I stayed with the trailer, in the hot, dusty parking lot. Gary came back to get me around 6 pm and then he hooked up and drove back to the RV Park in Winnemucca. Long day

The view out of the Window above the sink.

The Casino parking lot.