Arrived at Berkshires Campground @ 2:15 pm, BUT...

... as we tried to extend the landing gear and the stabilizer jacks, they moved only so far and then quit moving.  We wrestled with the landing gear for a half hour or more before giving up and calling an RV service guy.  The problem was that the landing gear extended far enough to let us unhitch, but not far enough to let us pull the truck away from the RV without catching on the kingpin (!?!)

The RV guy was on voicemail and we weren't sure how long we were going to be in this predicament. Luckily, the landing gear did extend enough to let us level the rig, so we were able to open the slides and hook up the utilities.

We had just gotten "settled" (if you can call it that) when the RV guy called back, asked a few questions, and told us he was coming over.  We killed the time waiting for him by checking e-mail, tuning the cable TV channels, setting the RV clock, etc., etc.

When he did arrive, he went through a basic check, and the first thing he checked was the batteries.  He found that the nuts holding the two live leads to our batteries were loose, causing the leads not to contact the poles securely - hence the batteries weren't able to push enough power to the hydraulic motors, and thus the landing gears couldn't push beyond a certain point.  The stabilizer jacks and slide-outs apparently worked, even though they work off the same hydraulic system, because they didn't require as much electric load to drive the motors to push them (i.e., the landing gears had to lift more weight).

Well, we were so happy the RV guy found the problem, we offered him a beer, which may have been a mistake.  He gladly accepted, proceeded to spend the rest of almost two hours giving us every pointer he could think of about RV's, their electrical systems and every other system, finally digging down deep to tell us all his horror stories, whether RV-related or not, and finally charged us $150.  Well, the quick response and solution were worth the $150 all by themselves.  But we got lots of other tips from him, and a lot of entertainment, so we decided that, all in all, it was worth it.

So now we sit in our RV, at dinner, having truly completed our nesting, trying to remember the difference between converters and inverters.