Slow Day with Friends

April 22, 2026 — Day 29

Houston Mesa Optional Horse Campground, Tonto National Forest, Payson, AZ

Paul had been working on the AGS aka Auto Generator Start. He had replaced the “remote” with a lithium battery ready one. We should charge much faster now. The generator worked the previous day. But this morning it would run but not charge the batteries. Weird.

He was working with his friend Claude (claude.ai) and various possibilities were investigated. Paul remembered that the generator has breaker. Claude did also. To be fair Claude was first but Paul was doing stuff and not reading Claude’s expert advice. Flipped the switch on the generator and off to lunch we went.

La Sierra Mexican Restaurant was great, colorful too.

The food was also great. Susan’s meal was huge so she boxed up half and that meant we had to return to the RV to put it in the fridge. We were quite happy to see (hear?) the generator running and finding that the batteries were charging.

We popped out to our friend’s house for a couple hours to visit and returned around dinnertime. As we had lots of leftovers in the fridge it was “forage for yourself night”. Susan ate the other half of her meal and Paul found something equally delish.