The drive again to the campground on Friday was a short style of the brand new easy shifting I can look ahead to I hope. $4100 for a brand new transmission, $650 for the code reader to unlock the pc and about $750 for assorted tows. Plus $250 for eight nights in a room on the campground.
Rusty favored having a courtyard outdoors room 14. The workers pet him and play with him and even the home painters take time to greet him once they arrive every morning to refresh the resort decor. He actually favored having a room with a king sized mattress, however it’s again to van life.
Fortunately we’re again aboard although Saturday was an extended day of hauling crap out of the room and filling GANNET2 and sorting the place all the things went. It’s bizarre how regardless of how a lot you dump stuff extra arrives to take its place.
We now have discovered it exhausting yo purchase first rate sheets in South America oddly sufficient so Layne introduced again a sheet to cowl our mattress as a mud sheet to maintain our bedding clear. We use an RV Superbag which we had on our boat 30 years in the past and they’re nonetheless in manufacturing. It’s a king sized comforter with a sheet velcroed inside.
One facet up is thinner for hotter climate and the opposite is for cooler temperatures. We wanted a brand new sheet liner after 5 years and the one Layne introduced again from the States feels luxurious. Nevertheless it took time to get our bed room reorganized. Then the kitchen, then the percentages and sods and half the day glided by. Layne bought my cough and mine had t completed so we ate a refrain of dry hacking coughs all day lengthy. However slowly we restored order.
Vans have been coming and going. Everybody has a problem. I directed a younger French couple in a Chinese language van they purchased in Chile to Renzo’s store the place he identified the necessity for a brand new engine as theirs has no compression. A Dutch couple got here in with a Volkswagen that wants an oil filter thus far unobtainable and a Spanish household in a Ford Transit is in search of a mechanic to restore a timing chain failure. It feels fairly good to be on the point of take a drive in our restored Promaster.
Tomorrow I’m gone all day flying to Cusco to select up my new passport then Tuesday and Wednesday we’ve got dental appointments to complete our crowns and I’m hoping Thursday we will take a drive to the coast for just a few days tenting on the seashore. It’s winter so it received’t be swimming climate however some contemporary surroundings might be a break.
I’m hoping after we get again we will full our suspension substitute as Renzo heard the clunking on our check drive that I’ve been listening to on tough roads. The CV joints appear high quality now after a one time clunk however we’ll get them inspected when the suspension is out and ensure they’re stable. They’re aftermarket beefed up models so I used to be stunned to listen to a clunk.
I additionally dropped off the ethanol package Layne introduced from the States and hopefully Renzo can set up it. Then we ought to be prepared for Brazil. It’s nonetheless raining within the jungle so we don’t wish to get there too early and August is the beginning of wet season so our timing could also be good.
I walked throughout city from my final dental appointment and took just a few avenue photographs of Arequipa. We now have been right here altogether too lengthy however it has been helpful place to get stuff executed.
It’s fairly odd to search out myself acquainted with the streets, used to dodging pedestrians on this oddly aggressive city the place folks strolling two or three abreast will power you apart in case you look intimidated however will yield in case you don’t. So I’ve realized to play the sidewalk recreation and check out to not yield…studying to stroll like a Peruvian. We now have our favourite eateries, our mechanic, our dentist, our physician… I actually need to get again on the street. Rusty can be pleased to not, he favored having a room of his personal.
