Well, plans changed once again.  About an hour into our drive to Flagstaff the check engine light came on.  It had come on a few days ago and Jeff took it to the dealer in Bakersfield.  They said it was a DEF problem but everything was in the normal range so they thought it was some bad DEF and adding quality DEF would let it “clean up”.

This time it said it would reduce our speed. First to 65, if we keep driving down to 35, then 15, then the engine will stop running. Yipes! So we diverted to Victorville where there is a GMC dealer. We found one campground (one! ) in Victorville- they only do long term but made an exception for us and said they will tell the owner we got towed in.  They asked for cash only. This place was very low class and not maintained at all, but I figured it would only be for 1-2 nights.  At least it had some shade and 50amp full hookup as it was real hot.

Well, 1-2 days became longer!  Our catalytic converter needed to be replaced and the dealer ordered parts and said it would be a few more days.  Then the wrong parts arrived and it became 2 weeks plus the holiday weekend so we ended up there for 3 weeks and a day.  The RV park let us stay a longer term which was real good,  but as we stayed I got more and more uncomfortable there.  The park had mostly long term tenants and many looked like drug users or dealers and “trailer trash”. There was trash everywhere and nothing got cleaned.  I stopped taking walks because there were a couple of aggressive big dogs that were not kept on leash and they went after Chloe one day.  And, it hit 80 by 8am and got hotter  from there, several times exceeding 100.  All around UGH!

This whole time we were without the truck, so I had learn how to use Uber and Grubhub as it’s cheaper than a rental car.  But it was real hard for me to be there and every day sitting in a darkened rig trying to stay cool. Jeff didn’t seem bothered by any of it. I was so happy when we finally got the truck back and got our of there!