16 May 2019 Maintenance Day

David worked most of the morning and spent the afternoon doing maintenance on the truck and Wanderer. He was able to clean the threads on the bolt that holds the footpad on the Big Foot stabilizer and thread the new nut on. That was a relief since we had been going with only three feet planted in the high winds over the last few days. The wanderer was a rockin’. He also drained the hot water system and removed the anode. We had gone for a year plus a few trips with the factory-installed anode and it was pretty much gone. There was an inch of crud from the old anode on the bottom of the tank. About then a park volunteer came around and informed him that they would be shutting down the park water supply due to a water leak but it would be back on soon. So David could not flush out the crude in the tank until they turned it back on (2 hours later). Once the park water was back on, all the crud from the old anode washed out, the new anode went in, and the tank is working noticeably better since. It was also time to check the house batteries, which were just fine. So all is well. 

Over morning caffeine (coffee for him, tea for her), we had decided to book a fly-fishing trip for Saturday since the weather reports had improved. It was still going to be cool (mid 30’s to mid 40’s and windy), but the rain probability had dropped to only 20%. So we dragged out our cold weather gear to see if we had what we would need with us (we had not planned on being out in cold weather when we packed). Leslie did not have any long johns and considering we would be standing in near freezing water for hours, she was definitely going to need some.  Otherwise we were set.