continued (because I am not being organized tonight and I STILL haven't gotten to the problem part).

When we were in San Diego Paul noticed almost immediately that we had a water pressure problem in the shower.  I hadn't...good thing he did.  He began investigating and discovered a water leak in our storage area.  Wet boxes, soaking wet carpet in storage area.  Not good.  After several calls to our dealer it was decided we should call an RV plumber.  Said plumber came, use pipe dope, tightened pipe, etc.  30 minutes later...water leak.  More calls - got in touch with the West Coast representative for Grand Design.  It was decided the whole part needed to be replaced...but this could only happen at an RV repair site ...a site that had techs who knew about Grand Design coaches.  They were in L.A. and Tucson.  We had considered riding along route 66 on this trip, but this set back changed our minds because we could get an appointment immediately in Tucson.  And as it so happened we had recently discovered that a dear friend was living in Tucson.  Another problem had shown itself during all this preparation for repair of the water leak.  Our refrigerator wasn't working properly.  Luckily we could switch over to propane so we didn't lose a refrigerator full of food.

The new part  for the leak arrived on Saturday and we departed on Monday.  We were told the part for the refrigerator would be available in Tucson.  So far so good.  Arrived in Tucson Monday night,unhooked, set up,  hoping as had been told to us, a tech would come to us and do the repair at our site.  Nope...we had to hook up and drive to the shop for our 8:30 appointment.  We left the RV and went shopping.  Later that day it was repaired and we moved back into our site.  It turned out the part wasn't the problem, it was a hose.  So we spent $ on the repairman in San Diego for nothing.  Oh well.  Then new complication...part for refrigerator had not arrived and no promises that it would arrive within 3-4 days.  We had MORE phone calls to make.  Luckily our west coast rep, Jordan, was a good guy.  Not only had he made the Tucson arrangements while he traveled for his Easter trip to Lake Arrowhead, he now started talking to midwest reps to help us out in Texas.  We were told we would be able to take the coach to Buda, Texas for repair of the fridge.  After our visit with Paul's mom in Austin that's exactly what we did.  It was a day of appointments and guess what, it all flowed perfectly.  While the coach was being repaired we had the truck tires rotated and then had an oil service.  As soon as that was done, the call came that the fridge was done.  Murphys Law did not apply that day.  Thank goodness.

We moved on to Austin for a 4 day visit with Paul's mom.  Next post I'll share pictures of TX wildflowers.