Just keeps getting better and better.....

More bad luck – yesterday the generator that is permanently installed in the trailer stopped working in the middle of the afternoon – 4 years ago we had trouble with it and stopped at a generator place in Gaylord MI  and they showed Randy how to “jump” it (bypass something  or other ) and it fixed the problem – but Randy has forgotten how he did that – that we went with plan B which is using the Honda generator that we bought 2 years ago – the only problem with it is that it will only run a maximum of 8 hours just operating the lights of the kettle korn trailer – not to mention a furnace, microwave etc. that we have in the trailer- so that means that Randy has to get up once during the nite, every nite to refill the gas so we have heat – and you wouldn’t want to be without heat as cold as it is today!!!!  Sunny but very cold and windy!  So the fact that the generator is out of commission pretty much settles that we will head home after this race- if we get it fixed in Gaylord again that may mean more options but we will have to see.

After we packed up from our luxurious accommodations yesterday we went to town (which was really only a block away) and got more fuel.  Then we drove to where the race starts and walked about ½ mile of it – just as I had feared, they were 5 turns in the 1^st ½ mile!!!  I am only running 4 tomorrow but would really rather not wipe out my first time on the sled this year!  The trail is pretty hard and wide.

The funniest thing that happened was that both Randy and I thought that it was Friday and it was only Thursday!!!  Pretty easy to do when you aren’t “in touch” with the world!  For some reason we don’t even have phone service here!