Stuck Waiting

 This is the wrong time of year to visit Paraguay as it’s hot as Hades with not much relief except for the odd rain shower and the odd swimming pool.

For the locals it’s just another day at work and Caacupé is full of busy people being busy in the heat.

Abandoning your sandals on the sunbaked sidewalk seems akin to fire walking to me but I’m just a gringo. 

On the road to and from the campground, about five miles there lie a few dustcatcher stores. 

Luckily we have no room for full sized statues and bulky works of artisanal art. 

The main road between the two main cities, Asunción and Encarnación is a smooth pleasant freeway. A rarity. 

Since the alternator was fixed we’ve driven a chunk of it to charge up our batteries and test the installation. So far so good. 

The trouble now is we need to wait for a package we ordered, a new inverter as part of a new installation with a new battery charger after ours quit. Waiting for a package to be delivered is the worse feeling of helplessness.  

As of Saturday afternoon it was overdue so our plans to get in the road have come to naught. Frustration is pointless emotion…

We have lived for two weeks generating electricity from our new solar panels and they do so well we can run our Dometic 12 volt rooftop air conditioner all night and sleep comfortably. So having proved that we want to travel and fix the shore power fiasco later. But we incurious paid for the new 3,000 watt inverter and it hasn’t arrived. Luckily we didn’t pay for the new charger which apparently is no longer available. 

Our plan is to check out Paraguay a little but the heat is awful masking tourism a fraught business then go west to the Brazilian coast. We both could use some beach time and the summer crowds should have dispersed by now. 

We had considered a straight drive to expensive Uruguay to get the shore power fixed but we now have solar power and a working alternator and are doing fine so we thought to have some fun and go back to dreary mechanical issues later.