Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Boise!

After a false start out of Heber City, one jack wouldn't come up, but no more mice, we finally left about 10:30 instead of 9:00.  Oh well, who cares, I'm retired now :)
A bit about leveling and jacks.  Our motorhome has two systems for leveling, air using the suspension bags, and hydraulic using jacks.  Primarily we use the air system, that way the motorhome sits on its tires, and in soft ground that is a huge advantage over the jacks which sometimes dig into the ground.  After all we are about 46,000 pounds!  In Deer Valley, the site was paved, but they had installed concrete curbs across the rear of the site.  We were so long that we had to pull over the curb in the back of the motorhome.  At ride height we were above the curbs, so no problem, but when we leveled we came down a bit.  The air and hydraulic system when in automatic, checks every hour or so for level and readjusts if necessary, pretty cool actually.  But in this case we didn't want the possibility of it moving the coach into the curb, so we leveled with the air, then extended the jacks manually to just raise the coach a tiny bit, then shut off the system so it would not readjust, that way we could be certain we wouldn't hit the curb.  We use the jacks so infrequently, the one was reluctant to retract when we left.  After some lubrication and a little persuasion it came up.
We had a nice drive, weather perfect, and with our late start we stopped in Declo, ID at a nice campground.  After another very leisurely start with another small issue, we got off after lunch for Boise.  Drove through a lot of smoke from some fires just to the east of Boise, got all fueled up for our upcoming travels with Karen, and got situated in our site at about dinner time.
We are looking forward to a great visit with Jan's cousin, Kris and her family over the Labor Day weekend.  Karen is bringing her motorhome in on Saturday, so will be a great reunion.  We haven't seen Kris and Sandy and their family in over a year!  Good times.

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