On the Road - Day 26

Alarm went off at 7:30am...we need to get to Valley Auto & RV Repair near the time when they open. Today they will complete the work not done last Saturday. It seems we probably have a damaged right wheel bearing.

We spent the entire day here, until they closed around 5pm, with the exception of our walking into Cloverdale for lunch at the Sea Shanty.

It turns out they replaced the right outer wheel bearing, the right inner wheel bearing, and two carrier bearings (in the differential) as well as other associated bits and pieces. They just kept following where the

job led them. I (Vance) enjoyed watching them do the work. They were comfortable with me being almost underfoot and enjoyed showing me what they were doing. Pat made progress on her current book, Danielle Steele's The House, which was given to her by a fellow "camporette" she met while exploring the Hazelmere RV Park.

Pat walked up to the Red Barn Antiques, where she had purchased the Mr. Peanut metal peanut dishes on Saturday. She wanted to stretch her legs and get a picture for our blog, since it was becoming obvious we were not going very far today.

She also took pictures of Walter, the owner and Patrick, our chief mechanic. Neither one of us was bothered by the delay. As I told Patrick, it was just part of our adventure.

I also told the guys I had been having trouble with the inverter. So Patrick figured out a way to semi-permanently attach the inverter to the house batteries, where I did not get a "fault" reading as I did when using the cigarette lighter as my power source. He also reattached a portion of the carpet which had come loose from the side wall of my driver's space.

As we drove away from the repair shop we both noticed a reduction in "road noise" as we went down the road. Clearly, almost half of the noise we have heard as we have travelled has come from the wheel and differential bearings - not to mention the metal shavings in the differential!

After getting gas and some groceries, we headed west into Vancouver to our stop for the night at the Capilano RV Park.





Seen on Menu as side dish: Mushy Peas! Signs: Puzzled Looks, an optical shop; Crash Crawlies, adventure fun for toddlers; FIDO is a phone network not a hot dog stand. Crossing into North Vancouver we saw a large log drive down the river. Reminds me of seeing the very last log drive down the Kennebec River in Maine many moons ago.


Ended at Capilano R. V. Park, North Vancouver, B.C.
Odometer 60,144.1 (42.2) Total: 1999.8