At The End of The Day, Your Battery is Dead

July 1, 2013 finds us in Las Vegas in the RV in the middle of a heat wave. We awoke to find that the refrigerator, which was also tuned up prior to traveling, was not functioning. Odd, but the freezer seemed to be keeping up. Decision was made to seek cooler climate for repairs, rather than the triple digit high teen heat in Las Vegas with AC that was questionable. We hooked up and left early, making good time to Tonopah for fuel and rest stop. AC was holding up in the 90+ deg heat. As we passed Walker Lake, I had never seen it so calm and pictures were obtained of the clouds perfectly reflected in the lake.

 

We thought we had left yesterday's calamities behind until going over a pass on US 95a from Schurz into Yerington we heard a loud bang in the engine compartment and I immediately lost power steering, AC and it began overheating rapidly. There was no place to pull over safely for a few miles, and when we were finally able to, luckily there was cell phone service. We called the Good Sam Club Emergency Road Service, and after talking with them, their tech recommended that they send a mobile repair tech out. 4 hours later, We were finally back on the road after the serpentine belt was replaced. We were still close to overheating, but able to run the heater to keep temps under the red for the most part. Yes, I said the HEATER. Oh, and did I mention the batteries in the MINI were dead? Well, we limped into Reno around midnight, exhausted.