Wake up to a scare!

On Friday morning, I woke up and noticed the electricity was out.  The surge protector had kicked off the electricity a couple of times last night before we went to bed due to low voltage but this morning it was kicking on and off about every 5 or 10 minutes...which is not good.

And then, we both started smelling something that smelled like an electrical fire.  We jumped out of bed and started sniffing around trying to determine where the smell was coming from.  Chuck ran outside and disconnected the electricity and started sniffing around the inverter and the outside of the motorhome.  He could not smell anything outside but it definitely smelled like something electrical burning or had burned back in the bedroom.

Of course, we always think the worst, and figured we would need to take the motorhome somewhere to be looked at.  As I started making up the bed and picking things up to get ready to leave, I happened to smell the control for the electric blanket and we determined that was where the smell was coming from.  Phew!!!

Man...what a scare!  But thank goodness, it was just the electric blanket.  Chuck opened the controls later that weekend just to see if it looked like anything had burned but we couldn't see anything that had burned.  Just the smell.  Anyways, that electric blanket is going straight to the dumpster!

We don't know if the low voltage is what caused the problem with the electric blanket but we did know we could not stay on that site any longer because the low voltage could cause other problems.  We drove around looking at other sites in the campground but with the low voltage issue, we really didn't want to stay at Peace River any longer at all.

I called the office and told them we would be leaving because of the low voltage issue and asked that they credit 2 nights back on our Zone Pass which they did.  I had remembered seeing a sign for Torrey Oaks Golf & RV Resort a few miles back north.  I called them, they had availability and accepted Passport America which meant our site would only be $20 per night.  Sweet!

Torrey Oaks is a nice park and we were assigned site #146.

What was most difficult about the site was trying to place the motorhome where the tires and the jacks would land on the concrete runners.  I got Chuck backed in where the driver side tires and jacks hit the concrete but not the passenger side.  And we had to cut a few limbs here too.  But other than that, the park and the people are very nice.

We got our 10,000 steps in on both Friday and Saturday and I got a nice blister because I wore the wrong socks. :(

Chuck had to do a little more maintenance work on the slideouts on Saturday.  He had noticed that the bottom layer of whatever type of plastic or sheathing is on the outside bottom of the slide was coming loose.  He glued it back together and then re-caulked the edges with silicone caulking.  He also dusted the outside of the motorhome and washed the tires and wheels from where they had gotten all dirty from the tire and alignment work on Thursday.  And I got caught up on laundry...again.

Hopefully, we have gotten all our maintenance work done on the RV.  We are looking forward to some warmer weather and meeting up with Ken & Bonnie and Neil & Nancy at Pine Island on Thursday for two weeks and then with Donald & Anna at Daytona in February!