After spending a little more than 3 weeks in Wisconsin, we are back. We experienced a blizzard and the flu (both of us) back in Wisconsin and are now in the balmy south. Yesterday we had a rather late start from De Forest (17 degrees) and landed in Cuba, Missouri for the night. We stayed at a Super 8 (not too bad) and were both dead tired. We left Cuba this morning and stopped in Lebanon (also in Missouri) for breakfast and then on to to Hollister, Missouri (about 3 hours from Cuba). We are back in the Turkey Creek RV park where we had been before.
Bad news here, however. Upon arriving here, we found our trailer batteries dead. We needed to move the trailer from storage to a camp site. But with dead batteries, the power tongue jack wouldn't work. Had to back the truck close enough to the tongue to be able to plug the trailer into the truck to provide power. No problem. Hitched up the trailer but couldn't move it. The truck acted as though we had the parking brake on. It wasn't. Checked the trailer, wheels were fine with no reason for them to be locked. For some unknown reason, I checked out the trailer safety brake. The safety brake is on a pull cord. If the trailer becomes unhitched from the truck while towing, the cord (tethered to the truck and trailer) will pull a pin setting the trailer brakes so it stops on the highway. The pin was pulled and the safety brakes were in place. Apparently, someone had found it funny to pull the pin on us while the trailer was in storage. This probably caused our battery failure as the brakes rely on the trailer batteries to set. I was able to reinsert the pin and moved the trailer without a problem.
However, the batteries were stone cold and did not take a charge. Another trip to WalMart cured that.
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