Presidential Home Tour & Blue Ridge Parkway

Sun shine to snow showers

Sunday, April 15th, we continued the trip with a stop at Mt. Vernon, a first for Barbara and one of the stops on her bucket list. It was chilly after the warmth of Annapolis, but still nice touring weather.

Sunday night we drove down to a campground called Misty Mountain. I thought the clouds looked awfully black. We later heard there was a tornado in the area.  

We stayed two nights on Misty Mountain. It was a chance to catch up on work and the rain continued all day. 

We discovered a leak in the back window and more troubling a leak coming from the fresh water attachment and becoming visible inside as a wet bathroom floor. 

Back in Cape Cod we discovered a leak in our kitchen grey water drain line. Back on Cape St. Claire we discovered I had left the gas cap cover at a filling station many miles away. Luckily it wasn't raining or the water would leak into the fuel tank.

Gas cap covers are hard to come by. I made a stopper from parts I bought at an automotive supply store. It wasn't secure but it was keeping the water out and the fumes in.

Tuesday, we went to Monticello. It was a great tour and a beautiful setting. Another bucket list item checked off for Barbara.

When we returned to the RV it was parked at an angle. The passenger rear tire looked low. Barbara confirmed when we got level that the tire was low.

After leaving Monticello it is easy to head south on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which we did in search of someone who could look at the tire.

The views from the Parkway are beautiful and we had the road to ourselves. However, there are no service stations. We ended the night at a KOA campground with showers. We made a nice fire that night.

The next morning the kind folks at the campground filled up our propane tank, but also got a compressor and filled the tire. We found a local tire guy but he was backed up so he sent us to a TA truck stop. 

We had the tire checked out, but, they didn't find anything. While they were doing that they ordered a gas cap for us. 

Aside from pulling the oil tube out of the engine block and knocking a spark plug wire loose, things went well from this point. Ah, life as a senior travelling in a vintage RV.

Wait, what!! We couldn't pass up one more night in the snow as we head back north through New York to Syracuse and eventually Niagara Falls.