Vinton, LA

Been a long day. The Lightning got more than I thought. I knew the remote temp battery had gone out Thurs, but didn't think much about it. Well, the RV battery was not able to operate the jacks and slideouts this am. Took a while but got it done. Move slide outs a little, wait for battery to charge, move, charge, move. Got to Vinton and the battery still had not charged. Would not even operate the front jacks. Also after AC was turned off, found the battery in the CO monitor was bad. Drove 15 miles back to almost Lake Charles and got a battery from Wal-Mart. Thank goodness for Wal-Mart supercenters. Where else was going to be able to get a marine/rv deep charge battery on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend.
Could not find my jumper cables to jump the rv battery to get slides out. Fortunately the gentleman running the park had a set and loaned them to me.
Noticed that Hurricane Felix went all the way up to Category 5 today. Watching that now as it could have an effect on the weather at Conroe. We will be about 45 miles north of Houston. 40 to 50% chance of rain every day this week there already. Might get a wee bit soggy if Felix heads that way also. :-(
Kay was not to happy with Lake Charles and me. Took the I 110 bypass around Lake Charles which has a high bridge over the lake itself. Leaving I 110 we ended up going East on I 10. That has a high bridge on it over the lake. After turning around and going back, we ended up going over three high bridges and Kay doesn't like hardly any bridges.
We have a level concrete pad here at the Vinton RV park and would not have had to unhook if not for the RV battery(couldn't get slide outs out). I used the hand crank to raise the RV on the front jacks high enough to get out from under the rv and turn around so could use the truck to jump the Rv battery.
Tomorrow hopefully will be in Conroe, TX. Tonight we are at 30.185752/93.572218 in Venton, LA and can be found online at http://www.satellitefriendly.com/user/info.php?id=edheral
or on the datastorm map at http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=2777.
Til tomorrow
Ed, Kay, & Sam the cat