Ahh, warmth!

Interesting day. To accomplish the re-supplying of the Airstream while we are here in Las Cruces, we headed down to El Paso, Texas. There's a Costco where we could replace our dying Dyson heater as well. This morning we jumped in the car to drive the 50 miles to El Paso only to be confronted with a soft whining sound whenever we accelerated. We contacted Mercedes Benz and learned that the nearest dealer was in El Paso - coincidentally located not too far from the Costco store.

We arrived in El Paso about noon, and since we had no prior appointment we were considered a "walk-up" and warned that it would be a little while before they could fit us in. We left the car, used the M-B shuttle service to go over to Costco and proceeded to do our shopping and gorge on samples. When we finished shopping we called the shuttle and Mike came and picked us up, along with our purchases, and returned us to the dealer. In about ten minutes our service adviser came to tell us that a hose had developed a leak and what we were hearing was air escaping from this hose. The car is not drivable with the damaged hose. A new hose has been ordered and will arrive next Tuesday or Wednesday.

We were provided with a loaner car; I called the RV park and extended our stay ( we can't move the Airstream without our car); we loaded the groceries and new Dyson heater into the loaner; and, drove back to Las Cruces. It's funny because we had talked about extending our stay one additional day in order to be sure we had good TV reception to watch the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, a show we both enjoy watching every year. Now we'll be here until Wednesday, at least. But we have a new Dyson!

We purchased our first Dyson heater in October of 2014, a refurbished model from Amazon. We have used it extensively every since. Early on we used it mainly to take the chill out of the air in the morning. But, since last April, when we first began to experience cold, rainy weather, we have been running it every evening and all night long. We have a very good furnace, but unless the weather is predicted to go below freezing we don't use it. It runs on propane and using an electric heater allows us to not have to bother with getting our propane tanks filled so frequently. If below freezing weather is predicted we set the furnace to 60 degrees. There are five heat outlets in our model Airstream, four to the interior, to keep us warm, and one outlet to the tanks underneath to keep them from possibly freezing.

The old and the new. The new charcoal and blue one is slightly bigger.

The new one set up and ready to provide heat.