Our Trip to Kentucky

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Hello Everyone!

I wanted to say that our trip to the Shriner's Convention in Kentucky began

as a disaster!

First thing, the generator for the RV wouldn't start because the batteries

were dead. Before we even left town, we had to replace two of them.

Not too far down the road the beeper for the gas warning alarm went off. I

pressed the reset button and it stopped.

A little more driving and it went off again. This time nothing would make it

stop.

As my husband started looking for a place to pull over, we noticed smoke

spiraling up from the alarm panel.

By the time we found a place big enough to pull over the RV so hubby could

check out the problem, there were small flames shooting out of the panel. He

grabbed the fire extinguisher and put out the flame. As he was pulling the

panel out of the wall, the plastic melted onto two of his fingers. He managed

to

get the panel removed and the fire inside the wall extinguished.

What a mess---white powder all over the place. It seemed the more I swept,

the more powder settled!

Made it the rest of the way to Lexington. When we stopped we notices a funny

smell. Uh-oh! The battery box was smelling a little funny. When hubby

opened the box, the battery was on fire!

MORE white powder! One of the batteries had burned a hole in the top and

burned the nylon handle in two.

By the time we got Mom checked into the motel it had cooled off some and we

decided to sleep in the RV with just the windows opened. Turned out it was

still rather warm until early the next morning----when it was time to get out of

bed I just wanted to sleep in the nice cool air!

Found a chain location of the place we bought the batteries and they replaced

them at no cost. Whew! We finally got a break. Then we found an RV place

and found out there was a reset button on the OUTside of the RV and got

everything working again!! Yippiee!!

We decided to unload the van an go downtown to look around. Found the

convention hall and did some shopping. Had a heck of a time finding souvenir's

until we stopped in a Hallmark store.

By this time we were frustrated and decided to load the van and head back

South.

Drove the scenic route down the mountain for the World's Longest Yard Sale

and had a blast. Stayed overnight between Lima Bean Lane and Butter Bean Lane

at an RV park. Lots of trees and other scenery.

We got home a day early--tired but happy with lots of great treasures found

along the way.

Sooooooooo, how was YOUR weekend?

Love ya'll,

Aunt B