Daily Excerpt: Diary of an RVer during Quarantine (MacDonald)




excerpt from Diary of an RVer during Quarantine (MacDonald) - 

Day 8 (Wednesday?)

I climb up on the roof to see why my ceiling-vent fan is not working when the vent opens.  Being afraid of heights, standing on an RV roof is not my forte; I get a little queasy standing in the back of my pickup truck.  So I crawl to the vent.  Here’s some advice:  don’t crawl on a white roof in blue jeans … unless you’re trying to make a fashion statement with white-kneed jeans. 

Finally, I reach the vent and Sandy opens it from the inside control panel.  I notice a switch designed to open when the lid goes up is rusty.  A shot of WD-40 and a slight tug on the switch and the fan begins working again.  I also clean a layer of soot off the topside of the clear plastic fan.  That brilliant piece of work warranted another Quarantini.  In all my 35 years of RVing, I don’t recall drinking cocktails at the end of every day to congratulate myself … but I was beginning to enjoy the practice!  I suspect when this virus is eventually brought under control, AA meetings will be very popular!

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AWARD FOR RV OOPSIES
Kops-Fetherling International Book Award for Sports and Recreation



AWARD FOR TRAVELS WITH ELLY
American Bookfest Best Books Award Finalist




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