We left Cheyenne early on Tuesday morning (Aug 9th) but started experiencing some electrical problems so we stopped near Denver and John crawled under the RV trying to, unsuccessfully, find the problem. The power kept going off and on in the coach but not in anyway that he could identify as the problem area. So we drove on.
We stopped for the night about three hours outside of Oklahoma City somewhere in Texas. We ran the generator all night so we could use the air conditioner - the first time it was used this whole trip. Wednesday morning we got going around 8 and about an hour later we pulled over for a short potty break and that is when we smelled something burning! John frantically went around unhooking all the batteries while I followed with the fire extinguisher! No smoke or flames, just a smell of melting plastic. After more crawling around under the coach, John found melted insulation on the wires from the generator to the inside of the coach. He determined that the inverter was shorting out so he bypassed that and we drove on into Norman, Oklahoma. About every half hour I made a sniffing tour of the RV.
We were able to plug into electricity at the campground and turn on the A/C without any problems. Eventually we'll have to get all the wiring replaced.
We had a nice visit with our grandsons (and their parents), we flew to FL for the wedding with lots of flight delays and we got back to Norman on Sunday night Aug. 14. Monday morning we got the call that our daughter-in-law was in labor and our third grandson was born on August 15 at 12:23 PM!
We got home on Tuesday, Aug. 16 and raced to the hospital to hold our new grandson. Liam Harry Lindstrom was ten days early but weighed in at 5 lb. 14 oz. and 19 inches long. What a great way to end our Alaskan Adventure!
We were gone 12 weeks and put 9,870 miles on the RV.
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