We are a little road weary this morning. To rest up a little, we are going to spend another day at the Spokane campground. Taking it easy this morning, we are going to venture out in a little bit and head south to Wind Cave National Monument. After that we plan on heading to Hot Springs SD. I would swim/wade/wallow in the warm water. We also need a few supply items if we are going to head up into more desolate country in the Black Hills, so we need to do some shopping. Basics wine/water/coffee...what more do we need.
We had a little RV excitement last night. We were cooking a Stouffers frozen dinner in the microwave. The box instructions called for about 20 minutes of cook time. At about the 15 minut mark the microwave just stopped. No attempts to restart it worked. Frustrated/confused and hungry, we made it to the camp store and picked up a pizza. Not bad pizza, I might ad for being basically 30 miles from any civilization.
It appears that the problem was that I was running the shore power off of a standard extension cord. I added a smaller, lightweight power cord for connecting when we did not plan on running the air conditioning. It appears that the high level of resistance in the cord upset the microwave and it choose to retaliate mid supper. We switched the cord to the heavy duty 30 amp cord. Let the microwave settle down and it now appears to be working. These are the types of problems that come up periodically when you are out on the road. We plan on heading up into the Great Lakes region for a month in August and we plan on taking two months in 2014 and heading up to Alaska. Hence, we see this as kind of a shake down cruise for the big trips ahead. So this morning all is good and Scout seems to be happy.
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