LEE'S SUMMIT, MO.  We shall be staying here another night.  We had originally planned to leave for Hollister, just outside Branson, to spend a few days, but as we performed our final steps to leave here this morning, the large right front slide-out would not come back in correctly.  The front end would come in, but the back end remained out, threatening to bend the slide-out.  We called a mobile repair service nearby, who opened a side panel of the motorhome to discover that the rod that deploys and retracts that end of the slide-out had snapped off.  It took two men two hours with a jack and cable tool to get that end of the slide-out to go back in, a little at a time.  Very tedious and difficult work.  Now we must leave it in until we can get back to Red Bay, AL to get it fixed.  We already had a list of other things for them to address, but this will be top priority.

So, we sadly cancelled our reservations for Hollister as well as the ones for Lake Ouachita State Park in Pine Mountain, AR.  It will take three days of driving to get to Red Bay, hopefully arriving Thursday afternoon.  If they are not busy, since this is a slow time of the year, we might get it worked on Friday.  Otherwise, we shall be there for the weekend with little to do, since no one in that area works on the weekend, and the only thing to see there is the coon dog cemetery.  Really.

We are indeed thankful to find someone to get the slide-out back in quickly so that we can leave tomorrow for Red Bay.