Day 1: West Virginia, Here We Come!
We hit the road only 30 minutes late this morning, embarking on a 3-week trip down to West Virginia and back. We’ve been on the road for an hour and we’ve already encountered our first emergency. It’s pouring down rain and the windshield wipers just stopped working. Richard’s looking for an exit right now. The nice thing about these large RVs is that you actually can see out the window, even when it’s raining.
Max and Mason are watching a “Mighty Machines” DVD so they’re happy.
It’s been raining in Maine almost every day since the snow melted in March so we’re anxious to try to find some dry weather. I don’t think today will be that day. Not only is it raining, but it’s actually quite chilly. It’s 56 degrees outside…which is, I believe, about 50 degrees cooler than it is at my mom’s house in Texas right now. Ha ha. And she keeps trying to get us to move back there. Not a chance!
We’ll post an update this evening when/if we arrive at our destination, which is somewhere in Massachusetts. (Richard planned this trip, not me so I’m just along for the ride.)
UPDATE: 3:40 p.m. – We’ve pulled over three times now and Richard is able to fix it…but it almost immediately breaks again when we start moving. We’re at a rest stop in Massachusetts right now. It’s still pouring, Richard is soaked, and he’s standing in the kitchen making something to support the loose wiper gizmo with duct tape and Max’s scissors. We’ll see how it goes…
UPDATE: 6:45 p.m. – We made it! We’re at the campground in Massachusetts. It rained until about 30 minutes before the end of our journey. The wipers never did get completely fixed but Richard worked on them when we got here and it looks like they’re fixed for now.
Max and Mason are eating burgers and fries for dinner while Richard will be making us breakfast tacos (for dinner) after he gets the wifi situated. I’m using the AT&T wireless card, which is very handy right now because we’re far enough south to get on the 3G connection.