Now what can go wrong?

We like to report our travel days as being uneventful.   We are not the real adventurist RVer's who like to travel the smallest, most narrow back roads where you are not sure if you will encounter a low bridge or herd of cattle in  the middle of the  road at the next curve.    However, we do  like the secondary roads that are also listed as truckers routes.    But things can happen anywhere as we found out on our trip from Gulf Shores to Red Bay, AL.    About 20 miles outside of Birmingham our driver's windshield wiper flew off. We were 2 exits from a Camping World and thought....we must be living right!   We found our way to the Camping World only to encounter 2 gentlemen in the parts department who had no clue of their inventory and were basically no help.   After wasting 45 minutes there we drove away without a new wiper.   We laid over in Birmingham  and drove 150 miles round trip the next morning to a RV Superstore that had our size and type of wiper.   Ron put it on, we headed out, stopped for fuel on I 65 then made our way to US 78 and poof.....there it went again.    We had bought 2 new wipers and stored the old  one.   So we stopped and put the old one back on and limped our way to Red Bay, slowing to 25 mph each time we had to use the wipers.    Luckily we did not encounter a really hard rain.

Can you see how the left wiper is bent?    I don't know much about it but I don't think this is what it's suppose to do???

Our main reason for visiting beautiful Red Bay, Alabama (not) was for a repair to our clothes washer.   We had a Whirlpool tech look at it in Gulf Shores, but he was not fond of working on units in RV's and made it very obvious.    Since we were in southern Alabama heading for STL we thought a side trip would be in our best interest to repair the washer and now the wiper.

Of course, we didn't have an appointment, and this is there really busy time with all of the Tiffin snowbirds leaving their southern roost and stopping at the  service center as they head home.

These are the coaches waiting for repair in our row.   There is one more full row on the left.

AND these coaches are along the back waiting for repairs.   Plus there are a few more on the other side of the building in the dry camping area.

We were just happy to get a spot in the campground with full hook ups.   The other times we were here we had to dry camp for a few days waiting for a site to open.

We have been here since last Sunday and our first appointment is Monday morning at 6:45 am.    What an ungodly time to have to get up and moving, but whatever it takes to get us in and out.

We are trying to get to STL for a bridal shower, wedding,  graduations and Mother's Day.    Our initial travel plans were to spend a couple of days in Tennessee to visit friends we had met on the road a couple of years ago.    We were really disappointed we had to cancel those plans but will make it a point to visit in the near future.

Here is what STL looked like last week....so I guess we shouldn't be in too big of a hurry to head north!

A view of my sister and brother in laws yard from their kitchen window.  

Wish us luck!    Hope all is well.