We did have a very nice time visiting San Diego; did lots of tourist stuff, had a great parking spot, looked at water a lot since we can't do that here at home but there was one very large downside: no dog. We had stayed in this same park once before and taking the same walk we took last time only with no dog was pretty sad. There is an excellent place for walking, complete with little doggie bags so you can pick up after Rover, but we had no dog. We still have the cat and he is an annoying little sh!t but it's not the same. Well, we'll just have to get over it.
We have an appointment to have the trailer axles lubed next Wednesday over in Las Vegas. We are taking the trailer back to the people who sold it to us. They want us to get there early so they can get us out the same day. It shouldn't be too tough but who knows. We had Camping World lube the axles on our old trailer and that was the start of a number of problems. They didn't bother to use the right size dust caps so they came off, spread grease all over & just generally made a mess. Of course, without grease, the bearings went south. It was bad. I don't think I've been back to a Camping World since. After getting the maintenance done, we'll put the trailer away until our trip next summer.
It's funny how the human mind works; or at least how mine works! I was reading a guy's blog and he discovered that his car is without an oil dipstick. We've had the Toyota for three years and I don't remember ever looking under the hood so of course I had to rush out to the garage and look to see if it has a dipstick. Sure enough; in fact it has one for the engine and one for the transmission. I don't really care but if I hadn't gone to check, it would have bothered me until I did. I'm so easy! The car is coming up on 29,000 miles so I'll be taking it off to the dealer one of these days to have it serviced. This driving to Vegas is getting habit forming.
I've been trying to figure out if I should take the truck over for an oil change. The thing is that it was due 'by time' in January but we really haven't used it much so we are about 3,000 miles short of needing to change it 'by mileage'. Seems kind of silly to change it but I would like that engine to keep going for a long time. I imagine I'll split the difference and take it to get fresh oil just before our summer trip.
Well, that's all the wheeled news that's fit to print. Have a good one!
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We do two oil and lubes a year on both vehicles. Once on the way to Mexico, usually at the Walmart in Anderson, CA because we always get there in the late afternoon, they have an RV bay and they let us park in the lot overnight.
We get the other on the way home, usually in Texas or AZ. There are a few Walmarts on the way with RV bays.
We use synthetic oil and never worry too much about the mileage between changes as it gets done every six months anyway.
Thanks for the reminder, I have to get the bearings repacked on the dolly.
Our cars too, way past time but way under mileage. Better to do maintenance than repair.
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