Today was supposed to be a simple day. Get in the car and drive to Tonawanda to pick up the coach from its most recent repairs. Connect the car to the coach with the new towbar (another story) drive back home and store the coach. Oh, we had made a plan to have a tintype made of us by our neighbor at 2:30 and then to go to the Rochester Philharmonic Concert with the Perlmans. 

Our departure from Rochester was a bit later than planned, this set us back 30 minutes. There seemed to be enough slack to make it up. Any hope of that was broken by a 20 minute traffic delay on 62 approaching Tonawanda. Still hoping to recover enough time to be back for a late lunch.

We arrived at Colton RV and there was GeeWhiz on the front line washed and ready to go, or was it. I went to setup the new towbar from BlueOx and it seemed to be installed upside down on the coach. This seemed to be an easy fix which, after complaining to the shop, I set out to correct. Afterall I have done this many times for myself over the years. However this turned into a Escher puzzel. I could get the bars rightside up (lettering and bolts as appropriate) but the portion that afixes to the coach was now upside down.   A tech appeared and said oh no its upside down, then he looked again and realized it had come from the factory assembled wrong. He went back into stock and pulled another new one which he mounted and the lettering was rightside up the bolts were in the right direction too. 

I lay this screwup to the BlueOx factory. I have to assume Colton put their most junior tech on the towbar install and no one would expect it to be misassembled from the factory.

Our drive home on the NYThruway – I90 – was delayed for a vehicle fire on the road which had us crawling at 2 mph for 10 miles or more. We parked the coach, refilled the tank of the car, and had it washed arriving home about 3:30. Cancelling the tintype shoot opened up enough time to eat something and write this before preparing for the concert.