On arrival into St. Charles Missouri a small town just north of Saint Louis we were disappointed to have problems with the truck and had to have it towed to a local shop for repairs, it turned out they needed to order a part in which was supposed to arrive on the Friday, then Monday and finally it arrived on the Wednesday over one week late.
One sick truck.
The famous Saint Louis arch which can be seen for miles.
Due to road closures we were diverted through the middle of downtown Saint Louis and found this unusual building seen on the way through Saint Louis.
An interesting building spotted by Betty as I drove through Saint Louis.
We are not sure what the suburb's name was but there were complete streets of boarded up homes and businesses. We asked but got no explanation.
The small historic town of Saint Charles main street is full of interesting small shops and we took the opportunity to walk the street and browse. of special interest to me was the Scottish shop but unfortunately it did not have anything of interest.
We stopped and had lunch at a small restaurant called The Mother in Laws where Betty met the mother-in-law and older jewish lady who had been running it for years.
I guess this must be getting close to the ultimate in Class A motor homes, it was parked next to us and we met up with the owners and had dinner with them, from what he told me it was only a few months old and cost him (his company) US$1.2 million. The side of the Class A motor home as seen from our 5th wheel. On arrival he hooked up to the water supply without a pressure regulator and ruptured his plumbing and hot water storage tanks. Two days and $1,000.00 later and repairs by a RV repair company seem him back with water on.
Everything about it is electrical - all the blinds on the windows, the extensions the awnings the leveling etc. and as you will see from the photo above it is all controlled from a very complex central circuit panel, actually it is all controlled from specially modified iPads that feed back to this panel. It seems like in the States there is no limit to how big or complex an RV you can have.
Apart from the cost of our repairs this created complications in my schedule as we were now running about 1 week behind time. Unfortunately this meant redoing our plans and cutting out a visit to friends that we made on our Alaskan cruise who live near Chicago so we will have to visit them next year. As a result we will go directly from St. Charles to Erie, Ohio and then we will be back on track for Niagara Falls and onwards.
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