Washington D.C. - Day # 5

Wow....here it is Tuesday evening around 8:30 pm and I haven't even written about Monday yet.....I am way behind schedule!

Sunday night/Monday morning was very, very, very cold.....got down to around 35 degrees....again the middle gas heater came on....the one that keeps the water bay from freezing......even with the extra blanket it got cold....down to 53 degrees inside the coach at 6:30 am......the kind of cold where you think your feet will stick to the hardwood flooring.  I woke up around 6:30, but just didn't want to get up and face the cold, so I laid there for another 40 minutes before I finally got up to turn on all three heaters to make it hospitable for life inside the coach.

We didn't really have any plans for Monday except driving the coach over to the dump station to dump the black and gray tanks, which were only 1/2 full after 8 days, but we also needed to fill up with fresh water.....we started out with 100 gallons when we came into Greenbelt Park, and were down to under 60 gallons.....certainly not an emergency, but we knew we would have take care of both eventually, and if we were going to stay another 9-10 days we might as well do it Monday, and then wouldn't have to do it again until we left the park.   

I had to "drop" the trailer before we drove the 1/2 mile over to the dump station in Loop C.....no point in hauling it over to the dump station, right?  I think that is the first time I have unhooked the trailer since we left our friend Ernie's home in Stuart, FL back in late February.  It took probably 45 minutes from beginning to end to get the tanks dumped, and the fresh water tank filled up to 160 gallons.  

After putting the coach back in site 147 I got the Honda generator out of the trailer, put it in the T-Bird, and delivered it 4 miles over to Precision Small Engines in College Park on HWY 1....right near the Home Depot where we had our harrowing parking experience the day we arrived.  They will figure out what is wrong and get it fixed within 7 days....that's a good thing, because we will only be here another 9 days.

By the time I got home from Precision it was afternoon, and it didn't make any sense to try and drive into the National Mall, so we spent the rest of the day reading, and taking  a couple of naps....yes, even TLE took a nap!

TLE made lasagna for dinner.....and what a great lasagna it was.....looking forward to the leftovers Tuesday night.  We hit the sack around 10:45.  Just another day "living" on the road.....we can't be tourists every day....it's hard work being a tourist.  Tuesday we will do a road trip up to Harper's Ferry, and then up to Antietam, WV.....a National Battlefield.  Stay tuned for details!

Thanks for stopping by!