Is it a "travel day" when you only move 11 miles?

What a nice change in weather from the past few days!  While Monday dawned a little foggy, by early afternoon it was mostly blue skies and lots of sun.  As we waited for the fog to burn off I took the opportunity to wipe off the lower half of the coach all the way around since it was still very wet from all the rain the past couple of days.  Originally we had planned to stay just one night at the Sparta Walmart, but, as you know, the weather kept us in place an extra day.  We came to this area to do some bike riding, so we moved just 11 miles west from Sparta to a cool little county campground called Veterans Memorial Park which boasts a hundred+ sites all on grass, in the middle of parkland, adjacent to the La Cross River Trail where we plan to do some bicycling over the next two days.   Does 11 miles really qualify as a "travel day"??

By 10 am the fog was no longer an issue, although the overcast lingered.  We decided to make the move 11 miles over to West Salem.  We arrived in about 20 minutes as the sun was breaking through.  What a difference a day makes.....on Sunday when we were scoping out this park the rain was coming down in torrents making the park look pretty bleak.  Jim Guinn, the park manager, quickly checked us into Site 307, which was a long, long pull through....at least 75'......fits us nicely.  The sites provide only electric (50 amp in our case), and water.  There is a dump station which we will utilize when we exit on Thursday.  Our cost for three days - $78, which includes a whole .50 cent per day senior discount....:-)

By the time we were set up it was nearing Noon, and the humidity level was rising steadily.....no doubt the result of 2 days of rain now evaporating from the grass back into the sky from whence it came.  

I spent some time trouble shooting my speedo/cruise control issue.  What I have determined is that the failure of the cruise control is directly caused by the failure of the speedo.  The cruise control module must receive a signal from the speedo to work, and since the speedo is not sending a signal anywhere right now it is the cause of cruise control issue.  The wiring coming into the cruise control module is intact, so I will trace it back to the speedo signal generator....I believe either a wire has come loose from the signal generator attached to the Allison transmission, the generator has failed, or the little drive shaft (generator key) that turns the generator has broken, or frozen up.  It's easy to get at so Tuesday I'll pull it off and figure out what needs replacing, or fixing.

The rest of the afternoon evaporated away as I did some insurance work, the trouble shooting, and set up the bikes for riding Tuesday.

Around 6 TLE opened the kitchen for service and prepared some amazing Swaii, a white fish that is often substituted for Grouper when it is not available.  She breaded it with ground up crackers and her own secret spice combination.  She served it with white rice and a salad......I thought it was chopped salad, but TLE assures me it was just a salad...pure and simple.....what do I know, huh?

Now that we are in the Central time zone prime time starts at 10 pm for us on DirecTV.  Just in case you are a new reader, we have never changed our satellite feed from the West Coast....SoCal to be precise.....so we still receive programming based on the Pacific time zone.  A nice side benefit is we still get the local CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX news, so we can keep up a little with what is happening in SoCal.  At any rate the one hour time change makes a big difference, so we are now watching a little more live TV.  When we get to Spearfish, SD in 10 days for the Newell Gurus Mini Rally we will be on Mountain time for the first time since last September.

We'll be here in West Salem until Thursday when we will pull up anchor once again, and cross the Mississippi into Minnesota.  This will be another new State for us.  When we get to South Dakota on the 16th that will mark our 35th State since we left our home state in February of 2012.

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