A productive day - but not in the way we had planned...

Our plan today was to go into Charlottetown to an RV dealer to purchase a hitch hi/low to be able to raise where the stinger of our Roadmaster towbar is attached to the back of the bus, something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Roadmaster-0486-048-6-Hi-Low-Hitch/dp/B001FCAY8U/ref=sr_1_2?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1472862256&sr=1-2&keywords=hitch+high+low

We had called the RV place when we were in Nova Scotia and the fellow we talked with checked and confirmed that he had what we needed. When we got to the RV place, he wasn't there, and the folks who were there weren't able to find what the guy we talked to on the phone said they had... he was going to be back in a couple of hours, so we decided to go on into downtown Charlottetown to walk around.

While there, we walked around where the boats were docked. This one was for sale - only CAD$325K - but we didn't think it was big enough to live aboard for us... though it would have the advantage of not requiring us to tow the Jeep! The funny thing about this picture is that Dwayne had been enjoying looking at the boat, but at about the time I went to take the picture, he was turning around quickly because he had just scented the waffle cones being made in the ice cream shop just behind me!

William Henry Pope statue, commemorating his being rowed out to welcome the visiting delegation from the united Province of Canada in 1864.

This plaque tells about the statue here of William Henry Pope. We may see the other statue in Quebec City in a few days...

We ultimately went back to the RV place, the fellow that we talked to on the phone was there... unfortunately, the part that he thought was what we needed was not the correct item....
He suggested that we go to "Parts for Trucks".... they didn't have it either....
"Parts for Trucks" recommended that we go to "Canadian Tire".... they didn't have it either....
"Canadian Tire" recommended that we go to "Action Auto".... they didn't have it either....
"Action Auto" recommended that we go to "Princess Auto".... they didn't have it either....
We didn't ask for a suggestion from "Princess Auto"....

So, we headed back to the campground.

On the way, we stopped to take a picture of one of Miss Doozie's relatives - it was parked at an auto-body shop that we passed.

The Garmin found an "interesting" routing for us on the way back - that's a red dirt road - it was "shorter" than the hard surfaced road, but I'm not convinced it was any faster.

 When we got back to the bus, we decided to make another attempt at figuring out what was going on with the headlights. We put the front tires up on two 2x8 boards, and with her aired up, it provided enough space to get under the front. This time, I (Patti) got under there, and on the passenger side, there was just enough space for me to partially sit up to reach the back of the lights. I first took the low beam bulb out, and it was indeed broken as the young fellow, Jim with the Yamaha, from the Walmart parking lot, had told us. The filament was obviously broken. We took it out to see if we could locate a replacement (since we now had visited probably every auto parts store in Charlottetown we have a good selection of places to check!). As I was working on the high beam, Dwayne said, "Oh, it's on!" - we went ahead and took that bulb out with the plan to get an extra. Then we moved to the driver's side - on that side, it is a LOT tighter working area - I could either see what I needed to see, or I could have my hand on it, but both was not an option. On that side, as I worked on both of the lights, they started working - so it seems the connections were just loose. Hopefully I've tightened them enough that they will stay.

Back in the bus, we started looking for information on replacement bulbs - each of the bulbs had information on the back, but research seemed to point to the same replacement for both of them, Hella H1. We called Jimmy to see if that made sense to him, and he said it could be the case. We ultimately decided to try using the good bulb from the passenger side high beam in the low beam (since we rarely drive at night, our need for high beam is pretty non-existent, at least until inspection time!)... and, it worked! So, we now have working low beam and daytime running lights on both sides, and working high beam on the driver's side (which is where it is nearly impossible to get access to the bulb/socket). We would still like to get a replacement bulb for the high beam on the passenger side, and an extra bulb or two for future use, but we're feeling pretty good about what is working with regard to the lights now!

Dwayne had talked to the fellow at HWH about the jacks and gotten some additional items to check - so after our "success" with the lights, we decided to do those checks and found that it seems to be getting power as we would anticipate it needs to... so Dwayne will respond the technician at HWH and maybe we'll get some more things to check by Tuesday.

So, we decided to reward ourselves by taking a walk down to the beach. It was after sunset and getting dark, but quite beautiful.

You may be able to see a light house light in the middle just below the orangey part of the sky.

The sound of the waves is evident anytime we are outside the rig - so relaxing and wonderful to be here. We thanked God in our prayers this evening for allowing us to enjoy such a beautiful part of His creation!

So net of our fix list for tonight:

• We need one bulb to have all headlights working.
• We're still working through a debugging list with a technician from HWH but thankfully, our parking spots have been level enough that air leveling or air+one or more tires on wood blocks gets us level enough.
• We don't have a hi/low hitch thingie, so we will probably continue to drive the Jeep separately. We already have talked to a shop in Ontario that we feel comfortable dealing with, and are thinking that we will get him to make a complete recommendation on what we need to fix about our tow setup. Unfortunately, that is a few days of driving away (based on how far *we* travel in a driving day!), but it is an option to just drive separately until then. Or... we can hook up the Jeep and be in the same situation that we've been in for a while, potentially risking that something else will break on the tow bar (see previous breakage reports here: http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/08/another-day-another-way-to-break-tow-bar.html and here: http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/08/cheticamp-in-cape-breton-highlands.html), but knowing that the safety items will keep us connected.