On To Ghost Mountain Ranch

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 –When we left the Monaco Service center we headed south on I-5 with a destination Canyon Creek RV resort in Winters, Ca.  This park really is in a canyon, a deep one beside a creek.  No Verizon cell phone service and no internet access.  No good.  So we hooked up the car again and headed 93 miles east up US 50 to Ghost Mountain Ranch where we are now. 

Ghost Mountain Ranch is a Colorado River Adventures park recently acquired.  It is in a mountainous area east of Placerville at 3700 feet and it is loaded with beautiful Ponderosa Pine trees.  And it has surprisingly good Verizon cell phone service and internet access.  Hooray!!!  

The pool really is shaped like a cowboy hat.  The RV sites were apparently put wherever there was enough space between trees without cutting any trees and the space was reasonably level.

We will be here for 4 more nights then on to South Lake Tahoe to visit Lynn’s longtime friend.  The smoke from the Yosemite fire has been quite bad in  South Lake Tahoe so, if it hasn't cleared when we get there, we'll only stay a night or two, then head on toward home.

Friday, August 16, 2013 – Here we are at the Monaco Service center.               

 Our fix list is finally complete.  Following is a list of the fixes completed:

1.    Living room slide has its new upgraded motors, steel shafts, and gears, and it seems to work quite well.

2.    Door frame has been adjusted and closes & opens now the way it should.

3.    The shower has been caulked and no longer leaks.

4.    2 new grab (assist) bars have been installed and are a big assist in entering and exiting.

5.    A new refrigerator light has been installed and seems to work every time where the original one was quite temperamental.

6.    Driver’s side window curtain has been adjusted. 

7.    The electric front shade was adjusted.

8.    The panel on the side of the pantry drawers was replaced and the side-to-side position of the mount was adjusted.  And also the side panel by the door was reinforced to prepare for mounting the new assist bars.

9.    And finally the hydraulic leveler jacks were recalibrated.

We also took the motor home down the road a mile to Paul Evert’s RV where they had agreed to install the cable we all thought was required for the outside TV to display DirecTV.  A very sharp technician there looked at the circuitry and found that the new cable was not necessary.  He showed us the correct input and channel settings and “Yeaaaaaaaaaah”, DirecTV appeared.