It was cool overnight, in fact it was warmer back in Ottawa when we woke up. Got to find a way to get the trailer across to the Caribbean Islands where it seems be be consistently warmer. After breakfast I went out to check the propane tanks, not surprisingly one was empty. We hadn’t filled up the tanks since we left Alabama so that wasn’t too bad. Unfortunately the camp site doesn’t have propane filling facilities so we had to go into town to fill up.
After a very lazy morning, which included Lyn mumbling away at her quilt again, we had lunch and headed out in search of propane and a Camping World store. We headed south from the campsite into Texas, we passed through the local town of Anthony which has the State line dividing the town in two; that must make for interesting administration.
We filled up the propane tank and then filled up the truck with diesel and headed off to camping world for a couple of things. The scenery around here is different to anything else we have seen so far on our travels. It’s pretty much desert with no grass, very few trees but a lot of low bushes. To the west it is flat as far as you can see and to the east are the Franklin Mountains that rise up to 7200′.
Once back at the trailer I had one of those afternoons where little things kept going wrong. The temperature was up around 13°C so I decided to give the trailer a quick wash to get all the grime off it from travelling through the snow, half way through the hose connector to the tap broke. At least I got the back window cleaned which let a bit more light into the trailer! Just after that had happened Lyn announced that there was no hydro in the trailer! It turned out to be a bad connection in the campsite junction box. On Thursday when we started the truck after lunch the rear view monitor flashed a couple of times and the picture faded. Today I decided to track down the problem. I have got as far as discovering that there is no power to the camera, it seems as though the wire may have got pinched somewhere and this has shorted out the power. Only problem is, the wire is 40ft long and runs under the length of the trailer. I may wait until we hit the warmer climes of Arizona before I tackle that one.
Later in the afternoon we walked around some scrub land at the back of the camp site. It looks as though there may be some space back there to fly the helicopter, assuming I remember how.