A Drive to the Fairgrounds in Yuma Arizona

Today was moving day.  A day I had looked forward to pretty much since we left Iowa.  The Gypsy Journal Western Rally held at the Yuma Fairgrounds started today.  Not really much going on today except parking and getting registered, but that is a start.  We left Friendly Acres RV park just before noon and made the twenty minute drive over here without incident, other than driving through some significant pools of water which was the result of having about an inch of rain overnight and this morning.

After a few minutes of waiting and some confusion on the part of the people who volunteered to help park the RVs, we were one of the first to get parked.  When most of the rigs were parked a crew started stringing out electrical hookups. We hooked up quickly just as it started to rain again.  But whenever I plugged into the electric box, the breaker would trip.  After about fifteen minutes of trying different cords and adapters, and being soaking wet, I and a couple of others were stumped.  I went inside, changed out of my soaking wet clothes, and proceeded to ponder what the problem could be.  Since there was only twenty amps of power available, when normally we have fifty or thirty amps available, I decided it had to be something drawing over twenty amps that was the problem.  We had already made sure that almost everything that runs on 120 volts was turned off or disconnected.  The next step was to shut off the breakers, plug in, then turn breakers on one by one till the breaker at the plug in kicked out.  It didnt take long to figure out it was the breaker for the refirgerator/convrter.  For the next step I unplugged the converter, and tried again.  Voila! It worked, so obviously there is a problem with our converter which I will have to deal with.

By then it had stopped raining, so we went to the registration building, got registered, wandered around a bit to see what vendors had there wares here.  Food was the next thing on our mind, so it was off to eat.  We found an Asian Buffet close by, and had some great food.

Then back to the RV for some tv watching and computer time, before calling it another day of adventure.

Paul