Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Coeur d’Alene Casino 7/18

Leaving Plymouth.

We hung around the camp in Plymouth until around 12:30. We didn’t want to get to the Coeur d’Alene Casino too early as we were planning to spend the next three night’s in the van in the casino parking lot.

When we left the park in Plymouth the check engine light was on steady. I decided to ignore it and see how it ran. It ran okay. It went up and down hills with no problem. It cruised with no decelerating and accelerating. I was even able to pass on the freeway.
The down side to this is that the fuel consumption almost doubled. It went from 10 mpg to 6.5 mpg. Not good.
This morning I looked at the error code’s The old code 45 is still there and there is a code 34 which is a MAP related code. I don’t know why the fuel consumption is so bad. I was thinking that the computer stopped trying to control the fuel flow and is just dumping fuel into the throttle body.

As we drove north on I-82 we went through some of my least favorite country. It is pretty desolate out here.

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Eventually you get to where the miles and miles of grain fields start.

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We drove along for miles and miles with not much else to look at. Eventually we came to the Pasco/ Kennewick area.
At Covington we took highway 26 east. At Colfax we took 272/6 to US 95 where we turned north and drove to the Coeur d’Alene Casino.

As we got closer to Idaho, the land began to turn green and there were trees. A nice relief for the eyes.

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There was a lot of road work so we spent a lot of time sitting in the van in the sun.

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Finally at the Casino.

It took us about 5 hours to get to the casino. By then we were hot and exhausted. A couple of hours before we got here we decided that if they had any rooms available we were going to get a room for the next couple of days. The prospect of AC and showers is a strong motivator.
We were fortunate as we were able to get a room for the whole 3 nights.

Tuesday Morning 7/19.

Shirley and Bill showed up around 11:30.
We went with them so they could get some lunch. While we were at the restaurant I got a call from Bob.

He is heading our way and should be here tonight or tomorrow morning. Hopefully between us we can figure out this TBI problem and we can continue the trip.

More tomorrow.

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