Travel to & arrival at Calico

Well, our first day on the road didn’t start too well.  Last night when Bryan was taking the covers off the windscreen a spring in one of the windscreen wipers popped out which meant that the wiper wouldn’t spring back against the windscreen.  He tried to fix it but it was too tight so we decided we would go to the RV store in town this morning.  This just happens to be where we bought Lily from originally.   We got packed up and ready to go and headed there.  They were NOT helpful.  It seems they had no one available and couldn’t tell us when anyone would be available, not even tomorrow, not even to just take a quick look and tell us if it was repairable or if we would need a new arm!!!  So much for looking after your customers!!! I must admit we haven’t had much luck with RV repairmen so far.  I’m not sure if we expect too much but surely customer service is customer service.  Since we have moved into Lily we have used a mobile RV tech that came to us.  He took far longer than he should have, although was very proud of the fact he had saved us money on a part.  It definitely cost more for the hours taken to figure out the problem in the first place.  We used Johnnie Walker RV in Las Vegas.  Now we had bought the trailer we had before Lily from them and have nothing but good things to say about their sales dept.  They are not pushy and listen to what you want without trying to sell you something you don’t want.  The service department is a different story, no customer service skills at all.  And now we are finding the same with RV Superstore in Pahrump.  Sorry, rant over.

We decided we would tape up the wiper and proceed to Calico as rain was not forecast and hopefully we can find someone in San Diego to help us. 

On road between Pahrump and Shoshone.  The windscreen wiper is taped up!!!

This meant that we didn’t leave until later than we anticipated but off we headed.  We took the back roads to Baker and had a chuckle at a sign we saw that advertised “Death Valley Health Center”   Just amused both of us.  J

We stopped at Baker for lunch and once again saw the Worlds Largest Thermometer. It was 104 degrees today. Not as hot as it could have been but hot enough. Phew!!!

The largest thermometer in the world at Baker, Ca

We have driven this road to California so many times that we both commented that we won’t be back this way anytime soon.  We arrived at Calico Ghost Town at 3.30pm.  It was so hot that I really was exhausted and ended up with an upset stomach.  We haven’t got a good phone or internet service here. Both are very sporadic.  We will go and explore the town tomorrow.  The campsite is very sparse and there are not many here.  It really is too hot to be outside. 

Parked in our campsite.  This will be home for the next two nights.

Hope the ghosties don’t get us tonight!!!!