DAY 67
Week 10
CORINTH (Texas, USA)
Monday May 20th, 2019
TODAYS MILEAGE – 91 miles / 146 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 23,793 miles / 38,291 kilometres
Today’s plan would be to resolve an air conditioner system condensation drain issue and to update my wardrobe for a quarter of the price that I could for in Australia.
At Mike & Bek’s, they have a second storey attic mounted A/C system in which both the system condensate and drain pans are plumbed to simply drop out of the soffit, some 7 metres (20 feet) in the air and land on the back patio. While checking out what I need to complete the task, I also noticed the hot water blow off valve had a slight leak as well. In trying to reseat the valve, the leak became worse, facilitating the need to replace the valve.
I jumped online to search for a decent Outlet mall in the area and came up with Grand Prairie Premium Outlets, about ¾ of an hour’s drive away. When pulling up, I saw that the AMC – Dine In Theatre had John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum playing, so I thought what the heck ..... why not avail myself of a real comfy reclining leather lounge chair with in-seat sub-woofer, wicked next-gen Dolby audio and in-theatre dining service - can you say 'Man Spa' time??? 
With the movie complete, I spent a couple of hours doing a lap of “retail therapy” in which I first located a roll around duffel bag and then filled with whatever caught my eye. I got quite a few funny looks when asking the shop staff to just throw the stuff in the duffel bag and off I’d go. I will say that the sheila at Nike got a little ticked off as I set off the security alarm and it took her 15 minutes to locate the one item she missed taking the tag off.
As luck would have it, the shit house installers of the A/C system appear related to those who installed the hot water system, as they did not use a barrel joint to allow the disconnecting of the drain line, which will require another trip to the plumbers in the morning.
I knocked up a quick dinner consisting of the four left over pork fillets from Saturday night, $11.65 worth of stir fry veg and a couple of packets of KA•ME Hokkien noodles, that comfortably fed 5 adults.
I reckon it must have went OK as Bek rewarded me by forcing me to not only make, but also partake in another round of fresh French Vanilla ice cream topped with frozen peanut M&M’s.