Sooooooo, at 4:30 am Peter was up making coffee.  I woke shortly after.  We both felt rested and ready to hit the road.  We knew we needed to say goodbye to the kids before we left, so we drank coffee and slowly closed up our rig.  At 6 am I texted Erika to see if anyone was awake yet so we could say goodbye and be on our way much earlier than we had planned.  We headed to their camper at 6:10, had very teary hugs with Claire and Elliot (Charlotte was still sleeping) and Paul and Erika.  On the road before 6:30!!  What a great start to the day.

Stopped for gas before we got on Interstate 95 NORTH.  The gas station was very busy and we had quite a time trying to get out after getting gas.  36 foot motor home pulling a car takes a lot of space to maneuver but we finally got out without hitting any cars or gas pumps.

Now we were back on the road heading to our next destination of Selma, North Carolina.  However, 10 minutes on I95 and we heard a strange noise and then the check engine light came on and the power steering and hydraulic brakes stopped working.  Fortunately we were only 1 mile to the next exit which we took with great strength from Peter.  We were able to pull into a gas station and immediately called our son in law Paul for help.  He came over, looked at the situation and gave us good guidance.  He would have stayed longer to help but he had a meeting he needed to attend.  Peter called our Road Side service and they said they would send a tow truck.  The nearest RV repair was only 10 minutes away, but they were redoing their service area so could not help us.  The next closest (a half hour away) was a ford dealership.  They could accommodate us.  The tow truck  arrived in about 30 minutes from our call.  It took a long time to connect it to the tow.  I drove our car behind the tow truck and Chelsea rode with me and Peter rode in the tow truck.  It took us a half hour to arrived at the Ford dealership only to be told they had no room to repair our rig, despite having been given an  appointment time.  Sooooo, poor Peter got back on the phone to find another location that could help us.  He found a truck repair, 40 minutes to the west of Jacksonville.  The tow truck driver called to get permission to go to another destination.  Nerves were getting very warn by this time.  Not to mention we had not had breakfast before all this happened.

We were now finally in a bay to be repaired.  The Service Manager said he would do everything he could to get us back on the road.  It was now noon, there was nothing we could do but wait, so found a Burger King near us and had lunch. We spent the next 3 hours sitting in the car with our dog Chelsea under my feet.It was a long uncomfortable time.  I had tired of looking at my phone so decided to go into our camper and get my knitting.  As I opened the door of the car, Chelsea bounded out and began to run wild. It took us about a half hour to follow her while she romped around the fortunately fenced area around their property.  She obviously needed the long run, but we certainly did not.  

About 3 pm the manager finally gave us the news about our repair.  It wasn't just a simple Serpentine belt that had broken but our air conditioner had frozen up which caused the belt to break.  The repair to the AC is about a $2,000 job that could take a few days to repair.. Just what we were not prepared to hear.  He did have an option that was much cheaper but did not have the parts in stock.  So, a very long story as short as possible, we headed back to St Augustine and are spending the night in their travel trailer with Paul, Erika, Claire, Elliot, Charlotte, Chelsea & Tucker.  

It has been a real ADVENTURE !! But not one on our bucket list.

Hopefully tomorrow will be totally boring !!