The big baby is home.

Today was the day we went to pick up the Bus at the Cummins shop in Harrisburg, PA.  It's been there since June 28 waiting for parts and when the parts came in, a truck driver damaged the mirror and it had to be replaced.  Would you like to see what a $1,000 mirror looks like?

It was scraped enough to remove the chrome and also bent the mirror shaft enough to make it unusable.  Penske Trucking paid for the replacement and repair, much to their dismay.  They were used to truck mirror repairs but didn't have any idea of the cost of a mirror for a motor home.

We picked up the motor home and brought it back to the cabin.  I had some doubts about actually being able to bring it back here in the woods and getting it parked.  The branch trimming the last week or so paid off and we were able to carefully drive it down the narrow & curvy lane approaching the cabin.  Parking it in the pad was a little more difficult, but we had cleared trees and stumps enough to make it fit.  It's all hooked  up to water and electric and ready to serve us well.  It's a relief that stuff is behind us and we can take a little break.

The temporary tags had expired on Saturday and I drove it back with the expired tags on the motor home.  I didn't have much choice in the matter and just took it easy and obeyed all the speed limits and rules of the road.  No problem.  A couple years ago I drove the previous motor home over 6 months on expired tags; however, that was because I didn't know they were expired.  The renewal came in before we got back in the summer and was lost in all the mail we had waiting for us.  We were in Texas when the discovery was made and Gerry called the Maryland DMV right away and ordered the tags and explained the situation.  They said there wasn't a problem and they would mail the tags to us at our Maryland address.  They also sent a temporary registration to my email address and said to use that if I had a problem. 


Gerry discovered her camera could take 3-D pictures today and I snapped this one of the road leading out of South Mountain.  I stopped in the middle of the road to get the picture just to see what it looks like.  I'm not sure if the details will show on the computer, but it looks great on mine.  This stretch of road is in the Michaux State Forest and is heavily wooded.