The new guy

The second guy showed around 5:00 PM and we immediately knew that this guy knew his stuff. He literally tried everything, including trying to wench out the slide with his service truck.( see pics).....all it did was move his truck! By that time, we had made 5 or 6 new friends!! Everyone was really interested to see how the hell this guy was gonna get the slide to move at all. And we have collected cards from people that want to hear how this ends up.
Coach Net is our towing service and because the slide is jammed and won't go all the way in or out, they will not tow us on a flatbed. Liability issues....So, we have an appt. on Monday with an RV repair place in Las Cruces...60 miles away. Alan is gonna drive the RV there and I'm gonna drive the truck.  The large metal Roadrunner was a statue at at rest stop...very cool. But, not so cool, are the signs warning of snakes everywhere!!
Meanwhile, we are talking a LOT about what we want for our future. Tons of people have told us that Rv's have 3 or 4 things going wrong at all times....they all stand around talking horror stories of things gone terribly wrong. One guy overfilled his fresh water tank to the point of buckling his floor and blowing out his joists so badly that the slides would never, ever come in again. Other stories of overflowing black tanks and shit flowing freely into the coach, rats eating wiring and birds building nests in exhaust pipes.! Can we take the stress? I dunno.....one day at a time, I guess. I just know that stress is SO not good for either of us.....it sends Alan's blood pressure skyward and throws me into a fibro flare, big time.And, of course, Lisa and Irie both feel it in the air and react it accordingly.
Speaking of birds, two of our new friends have FOUR parrots in their coach! We had a hard time with the noise and mess from one parrot....we'd never make it with four! But it sure is fun to visit with them. They have a 4 year old Goffin Cockatoo....such a sweetheart bird! It's wings aren't clipped, so they take him outside on leash. He flew off their shoulders and came to visit both Alan and me.....fun stuff!