GETTYSBURG, PA Day 3.  Good news!  We drove to the Harrisburg Freightliner service center to have the motorhome fixed.  The electrical specialist spent about two hours, but quickly went to the problem area.  It was a plastic electrical junction box on the bottom of the chassis with a large opening facing down to allow water to splash up into it, causing a malfunction.  Looked like planned obsolescence to me!  Any junction sensitive to water having a large opening facing down to let splashed water to enter is doomed to fail.  He said that each wire's connection is sealed to keep it dry, but the wear and tear of very bad interstate highway pavements and high winds would break the seals.  He dried out everything, filled the junction box with grease, and taped over the opening to keep it dry in the future.  Everything is working fine now, but that is one big demerit for Freightliner.

The woman who checked us in at the service center said that it would take a long time to trace out where the problem was, so cancel tonight's reservation in Gettysburg.  She assumed that we would spend the night in their parking lot, but the quick resolution of the problem left us without a place to stay tonight.  We looked around, hoping to find a less expensive place to stay, but RV parks and campgrounds in all the towns around here either were not answering their phones or were not rated well.  We decided to return to Gettysburg but try a new campground.  We are at the Artillery Ridge Camping Resort, which is no resort but a rather rustic RV park.  It continues the high rates found all around Gettysburg.  It is about a third higher than comparable campgrounds elsewhere, but we are glad to be spending the night where we have full hookups, and not the parking lot of the Freightliner service center.

The rains continue with rare peek-throughs by the sun.  This whole area has had a very wet year unrelated to the hurricanes.  Some years are just wetter than others, and this one has been extreme.  There were no fall colors this year in lower Pennsylvania due to heavy rain and strong winds that blew off the trees the few colored leaves they got.  Glad I got to see some farther north.

Tomorrow we have a short drive to the Washington DC/Capital KOA, which is not in Washington, D.C. but rather is in a town named Millersville, 27 miles to the east.  Actually I am glad to have it outside the city.