Hanging Out at Prewitt Reservoir

Monday, April 20

4/20 day, greetings from the Stoner State.

I woke early, as usual, and caught a decent sunrise shot:

Sunrise

View from inside while I wait for warmer temps

I woke to 33°f but things warmed up gradually and around 10am or so, it was already in the low 60s!

I walked over to the next campsite to get a view of my campsite:

My campsite from neighboring site

Didn't do much of anything, some minor chores in the RV, a lot of audio book listening.  I might have even caught a brief snooze or two as I sat under the awning shade warmed by the sun.

Only glitch so far, besides fishermen picking nearby spots for fishing, are the clouds of some small flying bugs that appear as the temperature rises.  Luckily, they're not biting insects....just annoying as they hover in clouds near you:

I did a quick ride with Yagi, my Yamaha TW200, and saw the place is about 65% occupied in terms of campers.  Most of the people I saw, were fishing.

I decided to ride to southern edge of the SWA, the Prewitt Inlet canal.

Right after the above pic was taken, I got back on Yagi only to find she would not start! Damn it.  I could hear a buzzing noise coming from the starter relay and it reminded me of the time I had starter issues and it turned out to be corrosion on the terminals. 

I tried bump starting it but to no avail and quickly tired of that. Sighing heavily, I huffed and puffed as I pushed her along the 1.3 miles back to the campsite. Luckily, the way what's mostly flat with only very very slight inclines to deal with at times.  Temperatures were warm enough that I was sweaty by the time I got back to camp so a quick shower was due. On the bright side, I got my exercise points for today!

While consulting with Chris Z., since he had helped me with the last episode of the starter not working, I tried hooking up a jumper cable from the RV battery to the terminal on the starter. Yagi fired right up, so it wasn't the starter.

I did some clean up on the negative terminal of the battery which did have some corrosion. I also cleaned up the other end of that cable that connects to the engine for ground. That connection was oily, so that's my theory at this point in terms of why it wouldn't start. Regardless, I'll be carrying jumper cables with me in order to start Yagi in case the starting problem resurfaces as I work to regain trust in Yagi.

Monday's Sunset: