Kingman KOA
Kingman, AZ
Well after counting the days, minutes, and seconds until we left Havasu the countdown hit 24 hours and we pulled the trigger early. It's not that Havasu is such a bad place but a month anywhere is just too long. We were planning to take the RV into a Freightliner Service Center in Kingman so we decided to leave a day early and try to get a jump on the repairs.
We drove north on AZ 95 to I-40 and then east. The total trip was just 58 miles. We found the Service Center and cheeked in around noon.
Waiting our turn......
Great West Truck Center.......
I wanted to get 4 things checked/repaired. Excess play in the steering, alignment pulls to the right, dash lights blink off every 30 seconds, and rear outer tire valves need to be pointed outward (instead of inward where I can't hardly get to them). After lunch they had us take the RV down the street to their tire facility. They checked the valves and suggested they might leak if the turn them... what do you say to that? I seriously doubted their assessment but wasn't willing to push it. We brought the RV back and started to wait for someone to look at the other issues. An hour later I asked them how long it would be and we were told another 3 hours (what????). We told them we weren't willing to wait and they promised they would take care of us if we brought it back next Tuesday when their Alinement guy would be back from vacation.
We left and drove the 4 miles to the Kingman KOA and got set up.
Not a real pretty RV Park but it is a typical KOA. Apparently there is a big motorcycle rally in this area and there are bikers everywhere (hey Howard, you and Vickie doing the Iron Butt out here?).
Anyhow, we are expecting big wind here tomorrow (up to 40 mph), can't wait. We'll be here for 10 days before heading east to Williams (Grand Canyon Railroad).... we expect this trip to will greatly improve when we get there.....