I have no idea where I left you in my last post so I am going to go back a bit in the history here.

We finally left a cold Junction City, KS on Sunday 1/16. It was just before Martin Luther King's BD and we were singing "Free at last". We made out way that day 300 miles south to Liberal, KS. The next morning we headed out of town and before we got very far down the road, Mel noticed that we had no trailer brakes. Well a call back to the factory and we headed on back to Junction City. We figured that it was one of their longer test drives (600 miles).

Shortly before we got back to Junction City an engine light went on in the truck. So come Tuesday morning the truck went to the Chevy dealer. They reprogrammed the emission control. NH put a resistor in the controller to make the disk brakes work. By mid morning we were back on the road again to Liberal, KS. We made it through 4 states the next day and spent the night in Tucumcari, NM. From there we headed to Las Cruces, NM. On the way there the engine light came on again. So the next day the truck was back in the shop in Las Cruces. That technician indicated that we had gotten bad fuel and the tank needed to be purged and the sensor replaced. That sensor, of course, had to be sent from elsewhere. So we spent the weekend in Las Cruces. That did give us an opportunity to go out to the White Sands monument. We also had the opportunity to go to the old town of Mesilla. The town dates from the 1850s when it was settled by families from Mexico.

We headed out of Las Cruces $1400 poorer (Chevy does not pay for bad fuel damage we were told). We were headed to Casa Grande, but only made it to Benson, AZ when the engine light came on again. We contacted the technician from Las Cruces. He indicated that we should drive another day. That perhaps we were still having carbon issues in the emission control. So the following day we took off for Yuma. That was a weeks ago. The truck is still in the shop waiting for parts. One part is a full particulate filter for the exhaust system. The parts are heavy enough that they are coming by truck from Lansing, MI. Given the weather who knows when that will arrive. The other part is a sensor coming from some undisclosed location, with an unknow delivery date. Isn't this fun. The only good part is that we are in Yuma, which until today has been warm.

We are now at the two week mark. We spoke to the Chevy dealership on yesterday. The sensor is in. They traced the particulate filter and it was in El Paso, TX. So maybe today it will be in today. With luck we may be on the road tomorrow and all this hassle will be behind us.

Think good thoughts.