Cheyenne, Wyoming

Saturday morning we drove into Frontier Park for the 50^th anniversary of the Lazy Daze Caravan Club. Much to our surprise, the registration and parking was so smooth that we were parked and saying hello to old friends within 30 minutes. Best organization we have seen in our RV travels!

We are also making new friends. There are Lazy Dazers here from almost every state. We have talked with people from New York (where I was born) North Carolina, Virginia, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Texas. The most interesting is the couple from Kona, Hawaii. They own two restaurants there but love to RV in their Lazy Daze. How? By keeping it in Washington state. There are 320 rigs in camp, with about half coming from southern California.

We had the first problem with our Lazy Daze while coming over the Rockies. The refrigerator works on propane while going down the road or in camp without 110V electricity. While going over one of the 10,000 foot passes, we stopped to take pictures and noticed that the refrigerator had shut down. It didn’t want to light up and kept recycling the ignition sequence. We attributed that to the high altitude and restarted it successfully when at lower altitude. We are dry camping here in Cheyenne, so are on propane. Then yesterday afternoon, I noticed that the unit had shut off again and it took 4 start cycles to get it going. That lasted until early this morning, when I noticed that it had gone out again. Thankfully Terry Joe, who is a backscratcher and camped next to us, is a refrigeration expert. He took the unit apart this morning and cleaned the gas jet, ignition wire and burner tube. It fired up right away after this. Thanks Terry!