Good News - Bad News

Good News
After getting the coach serviced in Spokane we had a couple of nice days near Lake Coeur d' Alene and then headed for Missoula, Mt this morning arriving at our campground about 2:15 local time.

Bad News
As we pulled into our assigned camping site an alarm indicating "Low Air Pressure" began to sound.  This is bad because without air pressure the brakes do not work correctly.  I confirmed that we only have 50 psi in both air tanks where it should have been closer to 120 psi in each.  Now we had a problem.

Good News
Suspecting this had something to do with the service done in Spokane I call the service manager there.  He in turn contacted the service manager of the Cummins facility here in Missoula and within an hour he had called me to say that he had a mobile technician on his way and in addition, since we are not too far from his facility, he was coming over too.  They arrived at the same time and fairly quickly determined that a high pressure relief valve had stuck open which was causing our loss of air.

Bad News
They did not have one of these valves so in the morning they are going to try and locate one here in Missoula and come and install it for us which we hope they can do before our 11 am check-out time.

Good News
The lady in the campground office said that if we need to stay an extra day that will be OK, they have plenty of space.

Bad News 
Don't want to have to redo reservations and cut our stay short in the Black Hills.

Great Luck
I normally like to take a break after driving a couple of hours but today I decided to toughen myself up a little for the longer driving days ahead so I did not stop at any of the rest stops we passed along our 185 mile route today.  It appears that if I had we would have been stuck there, possibly all night, waiting for someone who could come and diagnose the coach.  Having this failure right at our campsite where we have full hookups and are not on the side of the road makes me feel very lucky and like we are being watched over.

Here's hoping we are able to move on down the road tomorrow.  It is very smokey here, even worse than some of the other places we have been.  The official air quality this evening is "Very Bad" and our eyes confirm that.

Our next stop is Billings, Montana -  but the question right now is when?