Well, after a miserable night’s sleep I was up at 4 AM. Ron woke shivering and turned the MH engine on to try to generate some heat from the dash heater.
Of course I was worried we would die from carbon monoxide poisoning so was unable to get back to sleep at all. Jewel was cuddled up in bed with Ron so she was nice and warm.
Around 7 AM I woke Ron so we could get started for the day. Washing in a cold MH with lukewarm water wasn’t much fun. We still couldn’t get the generator to start but Ron planned on working on that a little later.
Can’t quite remember how the series of phone calls went (all written in sequence in our log) but we started our calls around 8:15 AM and spoke to our agent and the progressive agent who will be handling our claim. They were both in the dark as to how to handle the tow so our best hope was Allstate.
Sue was still not sure how to handle the tow but did recommend that it would be better for us to get the MH towed back to Massachusetts so we could there to monitor the repair .
I called around to several repair shops in Virginia to see if they could or would handle an RV repair such as ours. None would or could so the option of having it fixed locally was put to rest.
I then called Marty’s RV in Berkley and they said they would accept our RV for repair. They have a huge collision shop so we felt comfortable having it towed there. The best part they are only 10 minutes from our house.
Ron then called Allstate speaking to several different people. He did talk to one person who was agreeable to setting up a tow to Massachusetts. She told us James from Jolly Time Towing would be doing the job for us and would be at the rest area to get the RV in no less then 100 minutes. Yeah, this might work after all.
Now the task of getting as much stuff into the Jeep for the ride home. Ron disconnected the Jeep and drove it on the medium to jump the coach batteries and finally got the generator to work. I was able to open the bedroom slide and grab the necessities and some valuables.
While loading the Jeep, the towing company called saying there would be a delay because of permit issues. They would get back to us shortly. OK –so we waited and waited.
We were close to having the Jeep fully loaded when Allstate called back and said they actually couldn’t tow us past the Virginia state line. That we would have to have it towed by another towing company in each state. WHAT! Unacceptable, we wanted it towed home without us having to be there at every stop. The agent said she would call us back.
In the meantime Ron and I looked up towing companies and called around. We found Robert Young towing out of Roanoke who stated he could do the run for a mere $8,700.00 YIKES! That’s a lot of money so we figured it was out of the question.
After several more phone conversations with several different Allstate agents with no forward movement Ron decided it was time to talk to Sue again.
She agreed to call Robert Young Towing and discuss it with him and give the OK.
While waiting to hear back from Sue and Robert, James shows up with his tow truck. Who authorized that??? James told us the same story –he could tow us to exit 1 in PA and another tow truck would take us the rest of the way home. It was now 3 PM and both Ron and I on our last nerve. OK, so we’ll listen to what the agent has to say and just maybe James will be towing our MH.
Not that easy – the agent said she had no one lined up in PA and could not guarantee a tow from there so we would have to go through the entire process again. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!! We politely and apologetically sent James away for his troubles. Allstate assured us they were still working on getting us a full tow home and would call us back.
We then called Sue back and she told us the tow was a go and she had sent Roberts Towing a fax and they would bill Arbela directly. Finally, some results.
Around 4:15 PM the beautiful tow truck showed up and took our damaged MH away. They are waiting for permits so probably won’t get our MH on the road until Monday or Tuesday. (Please don’t let anything get in the way of this tow.) We could only take about 1/3 of our belongings and very little food in the Jeep so the rest of of stuff will be traveling in the MH.
After Jeff picked up our MH we went to the nearest Best Western to spend the night. It was a doggy friendly hotel so Jewel was very happy.
After settling in we went to the Mexican Restaurant in the motel. The food was excellent and the margarita hit like a brick. After all the stress , lack of sleep and not eating all day the effects of that one drink was very evident. I went to bed a 6:30 PM and Ron at 7 PM utterly exhausted and a little drunk. (We are such lightweights)
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