FIRST DAY IN YUMA

Our first full day in this southern Arizona snowbird destination was highlighted by Nancy's morning service appointment at La Mesa RV, the dealer where she purchased her motor home.  Patty and I drove the two Jeeps behind Nancy, so that she wouldn't have to hook, and unhook.  Based on what was on her list of things to be done, I figured she'd be hanging out for most of the day, keeping her two dogs with her in the Jeep.

After she got checked in, I told her to call when everything was done, and we would come back, and drive the two Jeeps back to the RV park.  We left, drove downtown, stopping at Sprague's Gun Store, where we visited with Mike, who was our neighbor at the Grand Canyon for two summers.   We made a couple of other stops, then drove back toward our RV park.  Since it was just about lunch time, I decided to stop at La Mesa to check on Nancy, and to sample the free lunch that La Mesa serves each day.  As we were about to pull into La Mesa's driveway, Nancy called, and it was quickly obvious that things weren't going to well with her service appointment.  I won't get into the details, but the biggest problem was the fact that her extended warranty company refused to authorize work on her dryer, due to the diagnosis being a broken belt.   When I looked at her contract, and made a second call to the warranty company, the word "belts" are specifically excluded from coverage, and it was downhill from there.  If she chooses to elaborate, I'll let her fill in the specifics.  Adding suffering to misery, she's battling a nasty head & chest cold.

It's been my experience that service contracts are usually a love/hate relationship.  When they do cover something, it's total love, saving you bucks out of your pocket.  When they don't, it's anything but love, as you wonder if the investment was worth it.  The 7 year extended service plan that I purchased with the delivery of our new motor home, has paid off for us.  We have collected more in service payments than what we paid for the plan, so I guess that pencils out in the black.

Needless to say, we didn't partake in La Mesa's free lunch, hightailing it out of there around noon. 
The girls decided that they needed some girl stuff from Michael's, so they went into town while I caught up on some reading.  Today, the big market place (flea market) is open for it's Thurs - Sun run, and we'll be spending a few hours there later this morning.