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THE BIG STINK

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     We are now back in Connecticut for Acacia's wedding.  As many of you know, Acacia (my daughter) purchased our house in February.  We left for our full-time RV adventure in April.  So after a month of being away we returned to our former home to find a reorganized interior.  We are now relegated to the small bedroom and the small bed.  More importantly, we have been mildly scolded about neatness--hummm!      The 2 weeks prior to returning to CT have been dominated by the "big stink."  We started noticing a  smell of rotten eggs, similar to the smell of grey water, in the rig.  The odor seemed to be on the exterior of the rig and infiltrated the rig from the outside.  The smell became so intense that we could not live inside.  I was able to alleviate the odor by creating a positive pressure inside which kept the stink at bay.  However, the stink was so pervasive that we cancelled the remaining days in a campground and went to the factory service center in Decatur, IN.

STARTING UP

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     Wow!  I wanted to publish this earlier; but a good internet connection on-the-road is either very difficult or super expensive.  I am now in a campground with good WiFi, so yay!      We finally left CT on April 23 in a heavy rain and 30+ mph wind gusts resulting in some stressful driving.  Our start was ominous as Nancy (no, not me!) didn't close the RV door, so we entered RT 91 with the door swinging open and the exterior steps down.  Yikes!  Nancy jumped to the rescue and got the door closed before I could give her the boot, so all was well.      So far we are having a good time, but the road is never smooth.  Our rig drives like a truck.  When we use cruise control and hit a hill the engine automatically increases its rpms to create a sudden, deafening roar.  The only way to avoid this is to give the rig more gas before hitting the hill or to quickly disengage the cruise control before the engine starts shouting.  In PA there are so many hills that this unhappy circumstan