About 2:00 in the morning,
I get woken up by, what I thought at the time was the Co2 detector, I had forgotten to crack a window and the
vent. I was wondering what type of dream
I was having to breath so much, but nothing like getting waken up by a
screaming alarm to knock whatever chance I had of remembering the dream right
out of my head. I hope it did not bother
the neighbors too bad. I finally got it
calmed down and 5 minutes later, off it
goes again. I vented the camper, and
turned off the propane (just in case because it is a dual Co2 and Propane
detector) and eventually went back to bed.
The next morning, I
got up and read more on the detector to find out what was going on. It ended up being the propane that was
causing the problem (good thing I shut it off last night!). There is a different scream for Co2. So now my goal was to find the leak, hopefully myself, so I could have my refrigerator, stove and
heater. I made the standard soap
solutions and started putting it on the fittings. The first one was it! This was the piece between the tank and the
regulator, for some reason, it had a very small leak. I took off the part and headed to the True
Value hardware in Florence to hopefully find the parts. They had them. I didn’t install then, because I was meeting
a friend and x-co-worker for lunch and didn’t want to be too late ( I ended up
getting delayed over an hour because of
construction and was late anyway…).
I had not been to Eugene, OR the whole time I was with the
company, so why not now. Lunch was great
and was good to catch up. It was kind of
strange being in an office environment again.
I was able to connect and get a number of pictures posted to the
website. More were posted from Canada,
and Glacier, and Waterton Lakes. Check it
out when you get a chance.
Another part of this stop was to get my mail. I have
wonderful neighbors! One of them is
getting my mail and sending it when I figure out where I'm going to be a few
days ahead of time. I had not seen my
mail since the middle of August. With everything online now, there is not much
need more than about once per month.
Next was on towards Crater Lake. Part way there I stopped at Trapper Creek
Campground, in the Deschutes National Forest.
I stopped early enough to get the new propane hose all hooked up and
tested out. It worked great, without any
more leaking. Really nice to get that
done and not to have to worry about propane or middle of the night alarms any
more. I built a fire, got a beer, and started going through my
mail. Funny, after over a month, about the only thing I needed in there was a
renewal for my license and the registration on my truck. The rest was mainly junk and a few magazines
(and a bunch of credit card offers). I
don’t have a shredder in the camper, so
the fire works even better. Junk mail
burns Great! On towards Crater Lake
tomorrow…
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