Thursday, May 14
We left the Philpott Dam camping ground a day early and drove 5 hours to Marshall Virginia to FOB Marshall.
FOB: Forward Operations Base.
We are moochdocking with friends of mine from college ROTC who live in Marshall, VA. We will be visiting other people that are in the area as well while we stay here. Hence, the use of the term FOB. The RV will remain on my friend's property and we will use the CRV to do all the visiting in the immediate area.
Google Maps once again had us going down the wrong road to my friend's place. It was a bit hair raising as a matter of fact, winding and narrow country lanes.
Anyways, we got here without any problems except for one incident of a line jumping Schweinehündin at the Sam's club gas station in Roanoke. We are now closer to the overcrowded mess that is the NoVA metro area so I expect the people factor will become much more pronounced and annoying.
Friday, May 15
Easy relaxing day today for the most part.
Did take the TW200 off the front cargo rack after annoyingly not realizing I hadn't switched to fuel reserve before draining the battery down trying to start it.
Sigh, jump started it using the RV chassis battery, got it off the rack, geared up and rode off.
Rode to a nearby nature preserve, perhaps 10 miles round trip. I turned off the engine at a construction zone perhaps 1.5 miles from my friends' home. Yagi chose to not start. First she behaved like the battery was drained. It should have charged up somewhat during the ride I thought.
I briefly tried starting it by popping the clutch, no go.
I called Martha to bring me the jumper cables with the CRV....luckily I decided to try bypassing the starter relay with a battery cable I'd started carrying since the events at Prewitt Reservoir.
Yagi started right up and I called Martha back and told her to disregard. Rode Yagi back to the FOB with no further issues. Annoyingly, I tried stopping/starting her a few times the normal way and it was fine!
I rechecked all the connections and they were clean. I did take apart the starter switch and cleaned the connections within as well. We'll see how she does in the days to come.
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