Days 1 and 2

Starting a day early was both a blessing and a curse.  Let’s start with the curse.  When we arrived in Cadiz I checked the tank lights to see how they were.  To my surprise the “black water” take showed full.  So while setting up, I hooked up the sewer hose and opened the valve.  While this was happening I continued to setup the water hoses and electricity.  When set up I checked the sewer hose and saw nothing was going through it.  This was a bad sign based on the tank lights.  Oh, I forgot to say that we had been to lHuntsville earlier in the week and did not empty the tanks(dump).  I added a little water to the tanks in hopes of getting them flowing.  NOTHING  Time to check and find out if the could be a blockage, but how, without being over powered with waste.  Nothing I did worked.  So decided to sleep on it and see what I could get worked out further on the trip.  Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well.  However, I did come up with a plan to do one more check.  This was to get Jan to pull the lever and me to climb under the RV to see if the valve was working.  It was working!!!  This was great news.  While the valve was open we didn’t see anything coming from it, NOT GOOD.  The valve was left open longer than normal while I calculated the next move.  In just a moment, Jan said that liquid was flowing.  YEA!!!!  When this happened, I added more water to help flush the tank.  This worked and now everything appears to be normal.

The blessing was that we didn’t have to have more skilled help.  If we had done that, more than likely the delay would have thrown our “scheduled” trip into a tizzy.  Back on schedule and cruising down/up the road to St. Joseph, MO.

The drive was mostly cloudy and much cooler than yesterday.  The two things that make traveling easier.


BTW, the reason we left a day early, was to get to a location before having to drive in the rain and let the rain go by during the night.  It worked plus it also shorten Thursday’s trip to St. Joesph.

Our campground in St. Joseph is just up river from where Lewis and Clark began their expedition to the Pacific.  Later in the trip we will be on their trail.  Since they traveled the Missouri River as far as they could, we will cross the trip numerous times on our journey.

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