Back to Utah's "Dixie"

We dropped Gordon off at the airport on Saturday morning and we headed north, making a short stop in St. George, Utah. Not much to see here except a few LDS sites, including Brigham Young’s winter home. The pioneers used to come south to “Dixie” to get away from the brutal SLC winters. We, on the other hand, were in Dixie for the summer – 110 degrees (but it’s a dry heat??!!)

Heading “home” to Salt Lake, we had a “Check Engine” light and warning buzzer. So, we pulled off of I-15 and got on the phone to Spartan. They told us that it would be OK to drive with a “Check Engine”, but if we got a “Stop Engine” – IMMEDIATELY stop or we would damage the engine. We pulled back onto the highway – and within a minute, the “Stop Engine” came on. Fortunately, John and Gordon had fixed our transfer switch (it had melted –yes, the switch controlling all of the power coming into the coach- melted!) so we were able to use the generator to power the air conditioners. It was blisteringly hot. We called Good Sam Road Service and within an hour or so, we had a towing company arrive. They looked at the problem and thought they might be able to fix it—it turns out that when we had run over a blown tire tread in the road, it had ripped a hole in the coolant hose and all of the coolant had leaked out. So, they made a trip back to their shop in Fillmore, Utah and came back to repair the hose and add coolant. Once they finished, they had us follow them to Fillmore to top off the coolant and make sure that the problem was solved. We FINALLY made it to SLC (a LONG LONG Day. We got set up and realized that we had no white wine-- and the State Liquor store was closed. So, we broke into the red wine supply, had some soup and salad and watched The Daily Show---and surprise, surprise--the Fart Machine came alive-- ON IT'S OWN!!! We're just sitting in the coach and suddenly- out of nowhere-- a Fart!!