Denise and Rick Cunningham

Like many boomers we're planning the "next chapter". We live a fairly chaotic life in Georgetown in Washington DC. I'm a former fashion executive and journalist. Rick's an engineer and computer scientist. We're about ready for a little change of pace. Travel... perhaps moving to warmer climes ...and definitely savoring more moments. We never set out to buy an RV...matter of fact, we had never even been in one and I definitely don't camp. But, now, with more time and a growing aversion to the insults of air travel, we bought a 40' motor coach. Our grandson, Ian, named it Gigantor. We call it Tor for short.

We're seeing things you just can't from the air and finding that we've so much to discover on this continent. In the past two years, we've taken three marvelous six-week trips. This time, we're "chasing the sun for as long as it fun". We left on October 5, 2009. We'll see how long we last!

We're searching for great places to stay, sights worth seeing, golf courses worth playing, great restaurants, shopping, farmer's markets. We're on the road in search of the high road.


Friday, May 21, 2010

You Can't Make This Stuff Up! ~ Part Two

May 17 ~ 18

The frustrations just keep on coming!  Rick has contacted everyone he can get in hands on at Forest River, the manufacturer.  They received the epistle e-mail he sent to the Indiana headquarters early Monday morning. They call him immediately and are promising an electrician will be calling the shop people here and they will send wiring diagrams.  But here's the real kicker....they are telling the repair shop that the problem wire does not exisit.  Funny, because everyone here can see it and are unable to determine its function but know it is the source of warning signals.

By 2 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time, no one has called and the repairmen here are at a standstill.  But Rick keeps plugging, trying to devine what the heck is going on.  No surprise that there is no resolution with Forest River and we are destined to remain in Boulder for the 17th day!  Rick arranges a conference between all parties for the following morning. Nobody exhales.

Wonder of wonders, the all parties hook up in the morning....they actually figure it all out....and Tor is sprung!  Hail the hero! 














Tor gets a great big welcome home hug!


We pop open champagne and celebrate our release from the hostage situation.




Next morning we are off like a herd of turtles!  Takes four hours to get our things back into Tor and check all the systems.  We are so grateful for Jim and Linda's hospitality and it was so good to spend this time with Big Jim, but we are ready to get back the Great Adventure.  On to Park City, Utah.

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