Journal entries are just that – the digital copy of my hand-written entries in my journal. If you aren’t interested in the daily details of our adventure, feel free to skip on to the next “regular” post.

Wake up earlyish and after breakfast I head in to town to Napa for fuses. They don’t fix the fridge so I work through a downloaded manual to troubleshoot. It points to the circuit board being bad. Power goes in but doesn’t seem to come out.

With no data signal I struggle to find information for dealers but Mom helps out. One place has the board in stock, so a motorcycle trip is in order to go pick it up.

Still no one at the pay booth this morning – maybe that means we got last night free. If a new board fixes the fridge we may well stay put till the weekend. There are a series of short trails that look interesting – but Ashley got a shin splint during the ride (I assume from the hike through Davenport on Friday) and we are going to let it rest for a few days so we might not make it onto them.

Didn’t pick up a geocache in Iowa while riding as I meant to – might run across the river to find one if any happen to be close by.

Also considering going to the movies. An old theater is Savanna is playing Minions, which I think we’d enjoy. Only one show day, at 7. Maybe tonight we can have a movie date.

Jump on the motorcycle for a 3-hour round trip back to the quad cities to pick up the circuit board. Hot ride. Upon returning we notice someone is in the booth so I go back to pay for 3 more nights. No mention of last night, so we get a 25% discount! They have a sign looking for new hosts so I ask about that out of curiosity. Free spot with full hook-ups and earn $1 a day. If we had signal available that might be a good option to sit still and work on a business idea.

Swap out the circuit board but no change on the fridge. Reset the thermisistor (if that’s bad it’s a whole new cooling unit to replace it) and nothing. There’s a cable I can’t reach that goes to the top of the fridge. Would like to test it on the other end.

Frustrated, I stop for supper and try again afterward. No luck, so I put everything back together.

Tea and watch a movie before going to bed.