Wed, Mar 21, Everglades National Park:  Well, the inverter connected to the refrigerator started beeping last night, even though the batteries themselves are showing ¾ full.  So, we just kept turning the inverter off and back on again and that seemed to work.  Was okay all night and the next morning the minute the sun hit those solar panels the batteries started charging.  We plan to spend the afternoon with our Canadian friends but wonder if we should just shut the refrigerator off.  Decided to just let it run and see what happened.  We had a great time with Esther and Gerald.  Talked and talked and talked and played spades for a while.  We walked down the street to where Charlie and Johanne are planning on staying this winter.  Hopefully, they’ll be able to leave their fifth wheel there.  We had dinner at a wonderful pizza place and then went our separate ways.  Driving back to our park, we’re on a rural road with the setting sun in our faces and the car in front of us made a left turn right in front of an SUV coming the other way.  The SUV slammed into the much smaller car and then started careening our way.  Fortunately, Mike saw it coming and pulled off the road at the last minute.  Mike went to see if the guy was okay.  His air bags deployed and he was bleeding around the face.  The air bags can cause a lot of damage though.  The people in the SUV seemed to be okay.  I’m sure the guy that caused the mayhem had to go to the hospital.  Needless to say, we got back and the refrigerator was still running and the inverter was happy.  All is well.  It sure chills down at night.  Think it was upper 70s during the day and low 50s at night.

This refrigerator is the appliance causing all the angst.  However, since we added 2 more batteries it seems to be better.  We lasted 3 days without having to start the generator and probably could have gone more.