The day started out well – particularly for Scott who got to enjoy the Phillips’ excellent hot tub.

After breakfast of eggs and hash browns cooked by Dave (with store-bought eggs rather than those from the Phillips’ chickens,) Dave, Tom, and Scott headed in Khan and Polo for our appointment with the RV service guy.

This went well from a standpoint that the newly-opened RV Service and Storage place proprietor – despite his appearance – was very helpful in diagnosing our problems and giving us advice.  The bad new was that the problem was our distribution box – a device that was definitely defective when the RV was delivered and where the parts cost alone was around $2,000 or so.  The worse news was that getting it fixed before we return to either Pottstown or Florida was just not going to happen without more trouble than living without the leveling system.  We returned to the Phillips’, ate lunch, and the Dave and Tom left to purchase cheap scissors jacks to place manually under our leveling system to solve the problem for the rest of this trip.

For afternoon activities, we decided to tour the William A. Irvin, a very cool ore-carrying ship built in 1938, and retired in the 1970s.

In addition to carrying ore, it functioned as a flagship of US Steel, and carried guests in 4 luxurious staterooms with porters and private chefs and such.  You could not buy a ticket on these voyages – or pay for them.  They were strictly for guests of US Steel or General Motors (we presume a major customer of US Steel.)

After our tour we went to see Tom Crossmon’s luxurious partially constructed house in the wilderness near the Phillip’s.  It was extremely impressive.

Then a delicious goulash prepared by Nancy Phillips, great conversation, and bed.