Ok, this will put things out of sequence somewhat but when I want to take the time I will fill in our trip thru the U.P., Alpena, and Traverse City and Empire MI.
As we were leaving the UP to visit troll land, under the bridge, the dash gauges went out. It was an intermittent outage but very annoying. It seemed to be a poor ground or power connection. I put in a call to Monaco/HR support and we continued on our way to Thunder Bay RV and Golf resort. Monaco/HT tech returned my call and after some troubleshootig and email exchanges I was told to take the coach to Just Trucks in Traverse City to have the problem looked into. So we changed our reservations and found that the Northwest Michigan Fair Association had camping at the fair grounds for $20/night. We booked a week, all we could since the fair was starting the following week. We made an appointment with Just Trucks.
When we were at Thunder Bay RV Golf resort we started to have problems with the transfer switch. Oh good. But the problem went away for the rest of our stay there. At our appointment at Just Trucks we were told that the part we needed, a Medallion gauge controller, would be two weeks out. Once we arrived at the fair grounds following our appointment at Just Trucks we had another event with the transfer switch. Again it went away. We had initially made arrangements to camp at Sleeping Bear National Lake-shore but upon looking at our options for a site and not having any sewer connection we decided to look elsewhere to stay. I hate to call this camping.
We found Indigo Bluffs Resort.
Now this is not our usual mode of "camping" but since we had a number of low priced places we decided we would take a week at Indigo. Wow that is living. Our first day the transfer switch problem returned. To make a long story short the transfer switch was bad and needed to be replaced. I did some rewiring at the direction of Monaco/HR and Surge Guard so we could use shore power and had the warranty replacement sent to Just Trucks.
We returned to Traverse City, Grawn MI actually, and found that the Medallion part would not arrive for several more days. We camped at Just Trucks for a few days waiting for the parts to arrive. Finally at the 3 week mark of our first visit to Just Trucks the parts arrived and were installed. That evening we returned to the Fair campground and stayed the night and did our laundry.
The next day we headed to Lowell MI to visit our friends from Sun-N-Fun and camp in their driveway for a few days. We have had a good visit and saw a few of the sites in the area. Tomorrow we head to Auburn IN and hope to visit the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum before going to Decatur for some more warranty work on the coach.
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