It’s Salem. There must be an energy vortex in Salem. You can drive in, but you can’t drive out! We’ll be here for the weekend. Heck, maybe we’ve moved here and just don’t realize it yet. The RV park we’ve been staying in has been great. They keep finding a place for us each night when we have to come back. They didn’t have any of the usual spots for us tonight, so they put is in the back with the seasonals; the people who are just living here. Wait a minute. Maybe they’re not being nice. Maybe this whole engine/RV park thing is a conspiracy. The repair shop says “Nope, have to stay another day.”; then we call the RV park and they say “Okay we’ll try to fit you in”. They’re working together to keep us here! This all feels so familiar. OMG. It’s Groundhog Day! Wait. Wait. That television show, The Dome. Help. We’re in the Salem Dome!
Happy Birthday Alex
It’s his birthday today. 12 years old. We went to gymnastics practice while we were in Colorado in May. Practice is kind of a wild thing, with everyone working at once. There were kids everywhere.
Alex in the air.
A kid in the air in front of Alex in the air.
Motivation on the wall.
An older kid working on his iron cross.
Alex on the high bar working on the blind switch from forward giants to backward giants.
Alex trying out his back flip with 1 ½ twists.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKC2uoH0cE&feature=youtu.be Happy Birthday Alex. You’ve accomplished a lot.
Alex in the air. A kid in the air in front of Alex in the air. Motivation on the wall. An older kid working on his iron cross. Alex on the high bar working on the blind switch from forward giants to backward giants. Alex trying out his back flip with 1 ½ twists.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKC2uoH0cE&feature=youtu.be Happy Birthday Alex. You’ve accomplished a lot. Update
The injector pump has been replaced. The problem has been fixed. We spent two nights in a hotel. It’s good to be back in the bus. We went on a test drive. It’s not completely fixed. It still runs a little rough. The problem has been isolated to injector number 2. We were at the end of the day. Since the bus is no longer disabled, we were able to drive it back to the motorhome park and spend the night in it. The injector we need is in Spokane. It can be here tomorrow. We deliver the bus back to the shop in the morning for the rest of the fix. Marv is the guy working on the bus. He seems good. Really really good, in fact. While we were on the test drive he listened to the motor, the transmission, the road noise, the wear on the tires, and the rattle/clunk that no-one else has been able to find. We talked our way through everything. When we got back to the shop, he found a loose panel in the left outside cabinet that rattles. When the slide is in, that would put the rattle just left of center right behind the driver. That sure seems like our problem. We haven’t figured out how to eliminate the rattle yet, but that’s no big deal. The big deal was finding the it. So here we are tonight, happy and comfortable in our own RV in the nice RV Park we were staying at before. Tomorrow we deliver the coach back to the repair shop. With any luck we’ll be done with repairs by tomorrow afternoon and be back on our way.
We have a mystery at our house
One of my Broncos flip-flops is still okay.
The other has been chewed.
There are four people in the house.
I’m going to excuse myself as a suspect. That leaves three remaining. Engine update
Good progress. They have the injection system apart. The problem is the injector pump. The trouble doesn’t seem to go any farther than that. The replacement pump is an upgrade though, so it doesn’t just plug in. The dimensions are different. The repair shop is building the plumbing for it. We’re in a hotel for the night with Annie and Henry. Meanwhile, the calendar continues to evolve. We just scratched the trip to Bend entirely. When this repair is done, we’ll continue our way north. Meanwhile meanwhile, we walked in a City Park. 
