24 Sep 2022 - NSTR Last Day at Kearney

 24 Sep

(NSTR = Nothing Significant To Report)  Last day at Kearney (pronounced car-nee, not keer-nee or ker-nee) Nebraska.  We had a good time here and would definitely stay at this campground again.  There are a couple things we did not see that were on our list, but overall our fun-meter is just about pegged out, though.  This retired / 'vacation for 5-months' life will wear on you after a while.  We are both ready to get home and reset a bit.

So today was a down-day.  No museums and no prairie towns.  We slept in a bit, had a nice leisurely morning coffee, went to Hy-Vee grocery store and restocked provisions, stopped at Casey's General Store and refueled the big ol' brown truck, redeeming the $0.76 off at the pump Doreen got at Hy-Vee.  That brought our diesel in at $4.039/gal but that is still way too damn high.  

Today we tuned in to three of our grandson's little league baseball games live stream, the Iowa State Cyclones vs Baylor football game was on ESPN2 at 1100 hrs, the Chicago Cubs vs the Pittsburgh Pirates were on Marquee network at 1730 hrs and the Iowa Hawkeyes vs Rutgers are on FS1 now.  

In between all that, when the sun started going down, we washed the fifth wheel again.  The wash job we did in Alliance was terrible because of the extremely hard mineral water which left spots all over the coach and I wanted to get that off there.  I also greased the suspension (14 zerks), inspected the tires, checked the battery(s) water, emptied/flushed the sewer tanks and stowed the hoses.  I have been fighting a sensor issue with the 1/3 full level on my black tank.  So today after flushing and re-flushing, I concluded the sensor must be bad, so I opened the flap I had previously created in the underbelly material, and I removed the malfunctioning sensor. 

Yep, it was bad.  Luckily I had a replacement, so we are good to go now.

The left one is the bad one, the right one is new.  The discolored plastic is not the issue.  The problem is the degradation of the Teflon coating on the center probe.

I am a bit disappointed as these are replacement sensors called "Miracle Probes".  I had really good luck with them on my Jayco fifth wheel, but these sensors are only about 16 months old.  I may look at a different system.

So, that's a wrap from Kearney RV Park.  Tomorrow is a short travel day, only about 161 miles east on I-80 to the West Omaha/NE Lincoln KOA Holiday campground. We will be there four nights.  That is the last stop on this 2022 trip before we get home on Thursday 29 Sep.  

Thanks for tuning in!