Day Eight

When I got up this morning the rv was cool so I went to turn on the heater, only cold air blew though so we turned it off. The black water tank is still showing full but I did drain it. I guess when they say you cant pack your sh*t in an RV they are wrong. I went into the KOA and bought an addition to the hose that blows water up into it and a wand. Just what I always wanted a sh*t wand. Like I cant make enough of my own. Anyways I tried the thing that lets you spray water up through the hose. it didnt work but it looked real cool. (See through, I got some lumps out...I know you will appreciate the fun of that statement David) I did not want to run a hose through the window and over our bed so I didnt use the wand behind stiring the tank with it a bit (ewwww) it still shows as full. We left the Koa this morning and went to Camping World in hopes of fixing our waterheater and getting our sh*t together. Its was hard as hell to find a place to park. Go figure a RV store with no RV parking. I finally said to hell with it and just parked in the drive way behind the RV's they were selling and made a mad dash for the store. It took a while to get help. as expected they were busy. I was standing at the counter waiting and the guy asks 'Did you want some help?' I felt like saying 'nope I decided to come hold up yhour counter for half an hour' but I didnt. When he finished with his customer came over and spoke to us, then proclaimed the place to busy to help. He finally decided that the service manager may be able to come out and look at the RV. After another wait the service manager showed up. The guy came out and checked the water heater, it does not seem to be getting any gas. Just wanderful. He however said that he could fit us in for service but not for 3 or 4 hours. However as we spoke to him I mentioned the heater not heating this morning and he told me to go try the stove. I ran out through the rain and tested. sure enough the stove would not light. it seems that Aiden laid on the gas sniffer and turned it off. I turned it on and woosh the water heater light. Well red faced I went back in and told the man and ken, After lots of blushing we were on our way. We bought a foam topper for the bed so we could get rid of that big air matteress we had. its very comfortable. I also bought a hose that I can hook to the tap for that wand that goes into the toilet. That should help some. I also bought some face cloths so I can shower properly. We are on the road again. It didnt take to long to get to Chicago this is where the toll roads started. First toll I paid a dollar fifty and thought well thats not bad, I wonder why people complain about it...then we hit construction. Ok not a problem they are keeping the toll roads in good shape it wont go on long. Then I saw a sign Toll ahead. Wait a minute, didnt I just pay a toll? and the construction just ended. So I paid a toll and landed in construction. It went on like that for hours. Toll Construction toll Constrction. By the 5th toll I was getting annoyed, It seems like every time they decide to do road construction they put a toll booth before it. Well we finally got past all that and not a penny too soon. I was running out of coins, The next toll booth I would have had to toss in a ferret. About 7 pm we started to look for a camp ground. We wanted to work on the Toilet some. And check the hot water. I saw a sign that said there was camping just off the highway at about 9:30 or 10. We followed the directions for a while but ended up off in the boonies and no camp ground. The gps kept yelling at me to turn around when possible. Of course there was no place to do that. Finally it told me to turn left ahead. I started to make the turn and ended up on the smallest road possible, there was no way the RV was going down it, and down it was a really steep hill. So here I am in half a turn on an incline and branches so low I can not go forward. I waited till there was no cars on the highway and quicky stepped from break to gas and backed up onto the highway to be facing in the right direction. We went on to the right highway and got back on it. I was so mad I didnt even try to find the campground after that. What is with these places that go "camping" then don't tell you where to go after that? Well we kept looking for a place to stop and by about 11:00 I had given up. I pulled into a rest stop. Most said no over night parking but I didnt even look for the sign. I stopped and went to bed. I was exhausted. To top off the night the hot water tank is still not working and the blackwater tank reads full. I am getting beyond frusterated with this whole adventure.