Singing in the rain....

If it ain't broke....but I couldn't leave well enough alone. Seems the shower had a slow drip. We were still using a special blend of Fresno and Michigan water, so it must have just been the 10 year old fixture. I looked at it and thought if I could just tighten it up a little bit.... They come apart so easy! Then the one O-ring wouldn't go back where it belonged. There were 2 parts, different materials, that were fused together and if we could have screwed the one out of the other we may have been able to reassemble it

We were still at Jim's so I knew we could get parts but it didn't register that if the shower valve was not sealed, that we wouldn't have any pressurized water!😟

So we went to the plumbing supply but he tells us that most of the new fixtures have male fittings, so we had to get a variety of new fittings to connect to the PEX. Turned out to be 2 days of plumbing, shopping, leak testing and knuckle wrenching, but now we have a wonderful, pressure compensating faucet and it doesn't appear to leak!

Lyn was very understanding.

Six inch square access hole. No you are not seeing double, there's a sliding door there.

First go around with stupid fittings trying to keep the PEX 90s. Not only did they leak but they touched the wall, and I'm sure would have broken on a bumpy road.

Finally Jim convinced me to use the better Sharkbite fittings and found some well machined brass 90s. I was worried that if the PEX piping was too short, there was no way to access it, unless you remove the shower, the sliding door, or the rear wheels and cut up through the wheel well

But wait there's more!! No we're not going to cover the gory details.

While waiting for parts, we took a drive up the river to Port Huron. Another perfect day, and a nice breeze. There are a series of small towns, St Clair being the most stately. There are over 5 million crossings from Port Huron to Canada per year. They had to build a second bridge about 10 years ago. The trucks are backed up both ways. Crossing in Detroit, via the bridge or the tunnel leads you through Windsor city streets, which are not as easily navigated.

Jenny has a friend, that has a motorhome and a sailboat. They keep the 40 foot boat along the Black River and live on it during the summer. She contacted them and we met up for a tour and good stories. He had run the Port Huron to Mackinac Single Handed race about 20 times, so fair to say he is a serious sailor. They keep the motorhome (2003 Country Coach) nearby on a lot where he built a barn. When the season ends he pulls the boat and puts it in the barn and off they go in the motorhome!

On the way back we stopped to eat in Marine City. The restaurant was next to a ferry which goes to Canada. It was a quiet night and we got a seat right at the window. Jim pointed out some guys that were rolling on a dolly with 6 cases of beer! Apparently they walk across on the ferry and buy the beer at the Duty Free store and then go right back.

Then we see a big tanker truck in the queue and some commotion as they make a pickup back up and move over. This tanker then pulls on with like 3 feet to spare and off they go to Canada.

Jim got a little confused about which car was his: