Feb 24, 2015 David and I sadly left Curry Hammock and The Keys, but were excited to be heading out on a new adventure.
We’re driving down Krome Ave in Homestead, Florida enroute to “Alligator Alley” in the Everglades. This is one of our favorite routes to take headed from the south to the Gulf Shores and Panhandle.
For those of you that have been reading my blogs, Homestead is where my bicycle was stolen while we were shopping, a few weeks back.
Well, we’re driving down Krome Ave through the Old Historic Downtown section of Homestead and suddenly steam starts spraying out of all the vents in the RV. We get lucky and there’s a parking spot big enough for David to pull the R V over. We get out and water is pouring out from under the hood.
We are Good Sam members and David calls for assistance. The customer service guy is great! There is a Ford service center 1.3 miles from where we are (the RV has a Ford Chassis, Engine and parts.) The Rep says he’ll get a tow truck right out. David says hold off on the tow he thinks he can drive it the 1.3 miles. Fortunately, our fresh water holding tank has plenty of water. We fill gallon bottles and David refills the radiator. We make it to the Service Center and find out it has a bad heater core.
So, are we lucky or not? It could have been worse. We could have broken down out in the middle of nowhere. Now we have to wait for the Service Department to get the part… Tomorrow!. We have nowhere to stay. It’s Florida in February and beside all the “snowbirds” it’s school vacation week.
We find another, pet friendly, Motel 6. This one is not in as nice an area as the one in Pennsylvania and costs almost three times as much. We still considered ourselves lucky to find this one with a vacancy. My ex husband has a condo an hour and a half from us and had offered to let us stay there. If we hadn’t found the Motel 6 it was nice to know we had an alternative. Hopefully, the RV will be repaired in the morning and we’ll be on our way.