Campsite for Thursday night
Yes this is an overflow sales lot for Evert’s RV Country in Flagstaff, AZ.
This is how we got from Page to Flagstaff. You think gas is expensive this is $4.00 a mile. We stayed with AAA towing because our membership which ended August 31 was on an auto pay plan and was posted the first Tuesday in August. I have to say AAA has done great job this time. The people in the Phoenix call center are pretty helpful and good at follow up
First thing this morning the mechanics looked at the coach and decided the problem was that the ignition key has a chip in it and the key chip and the steering column chip were not talking to each other all the time. We decided we would move on and look for a Workhorse chassis center who could reprogram the chips. We drove a mile and a half to a dump station ( I think the shitter was almost FULL) and than a half block to get gas. After I got gas the ignition key would do nothing. So there we were at a large Shell station under their canopy out of the sun at 11:30 a.a. in or loved but dead coach.
I found this dealership in Flagstaff who will work on the coach. The service manage even thinks he knows what is wrong. He has seen many Workhorse coaches where the power distribution switch at the end of the steering column melts. He said he could look at it on Friday if we got to Flagstaff.
I called AAA about getting towed to this service center in Flagstaff from Page. They said sure, the membership we have covers 100 miles and it is 127.2 to Flagstaff. We would have to pay the tow truck driver (Jack, that would be Mater) for the additional miles. 45 minutes after the original call I called AAA to ask for a ride back to the repair shop to get the pickup. AAA said they were working on getting a tow that the Page people were to busy to help us however they had found a truck in Winslow, AZ and he’d be on his way shortly. The pickup was still 1.5 miles back up the road so I put on a bunch of sun block and a quart of water to go get the pickup. At 2:43 the tow truck driver called to say he was on his way.
Clayton, the driver got to Page at 5:45 and by 6:30 we were moving south. By 9:30 p.m. we were at our campsite for the night. Flagstaff is not noted for being an RV friendly town so we tucked the coach in between several display models the dealership is selling.
We are here and working to fix new problem.