On Sunday morning, while Mrs Squirrel and I were breaking camp, I was
outside, puttering and packing gear, and she was inside, cleaning the
kitchen. After noting that I had not left the kitchen as clean as she
likes after my last solo camping trip, she announced that the sink was
not draining. So I emptied the gray water container and the water began
to drain. A few moments later, though, she said it wasn't draining
again. I inspected the 18'' drain hose and found no problem, and the
garden hose type ball valve I had screwed into the drain fitting on the
bottom of Mellow Yellow was in the "on" position. So I went inside and
tried probing down the sink drain with a nylon wire tie, which didn't
get very far -- that drain is built funny, I guess.

Puzzled, I went back outside and unscrewed the ball valve from the
underside and water began to rush out. I took the valve into Mellow
Yellow and showed Mrs Squirrel the coffee bean that was plugging the
hole in the ball. "Well, there's your problem," I told her.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR