Woke up to the glorious prospect of no long distance driving! Most of the water problems have been solved. I thought I had done a reasonable job of winterising the trailer prior to sub-zero temperatures setting in ……. WRONG! Actually all the major piping had been drained or filled with antifreeze and there was no damage there, what I had missed was a couple of hoses, one connecting the outside shower head to the taps and the other in the pull-out head on the kitchen sink. The outside shower blew the valve out of one of the taps, which was fixed after an hour or so groping around in the dark of the trailer storage area. No cost and no permanent damage. The indoor leak in the kitchen wasn’t spotted immediately as the leak was inside one of the cabinets, however once water was seen spilling out from the cabinet we had a good clue that something was wrong. Again a fitting had been blown apart by the pressure of the ice, now I understand what the anomalous expansion of water refers to from way back in physics lessons 🙁 Unfortunately the kitchen saga didn’t finish there (what a surprise) the spray head discharged water from points that were not meant to discharge water, turns out the plastic pipe inside the head had fractured. Phoned the manufacturers to see if i could just buy a replacement head and 5 minutes later the order had been placed for the grand total of zero dollars.
The temperature was up around 27C again, with strong winds. In fact even now at 10:30 in the evening the trailer is still being buffeted quite a bit.
This has to be the friendliest place we have stayed at to date, people have been very helpful in giving us info about the area and the campsite. Lyn spent the afternoon at the weekly quilting meeting, so she was a happy camper. We headed into Brownsville to convert the IOU I gave Lyn as part of her Christmas present, into a NOOK e-reader. We also finished off the grocery shopping while we were there.
I put up the WiFi antenna hoping that it would improve the internet so that we could use it for the home phone and Skype videos, but although the signal was stronger, there doesn’t seem to be the bandwidth available for reliable voice and video. Have to do some research on that !!
The rest of the day was spent recovering from truck lag