Bi Polar Vacation

We had a wondrous time on our vacation despite a total of 4 breakdowns. The first I shared already and it was the only one going out to Montana. Coming home was another matter, let me back up to our arrival. When we got to my dad's place and parked, the next day I had a large puddle of transmission fluid under the mh, turns out one of the transmission lines ruptured. So I added a quart of tranny fluid and headed over to the mechanic. He replaced both tranny hoses and added a cooler because what I though was the tranny cooler turned out to be for the roof AC. 3 quarts of fluid, new lines, and a new cooler and that problem was solved--2 day delay. On the way home, the serpentine belt broke and tore up one of my new tranny hoses, so a new belt another hose plus another 2 day delay and we are moving again. The third breakdown on the way home was a combination of things, my sewer hose holder broke and it was flailing around going down the highway and we were flagged down by a fellow RVer. So I stopped along side the freeway and got the hose stowed into one of the basement compartments. Then the "fun" began, I tried to start the mh and nothing happened, no click, no grunt, just a very loud silence. So I called Good Sam again and 3 hours later a wrecker shows up to take us into Omaha, NB--we are like 20 miles away from it. The new starter, put on before trip started as old one was not functioning properly, had cooked itself. So 1.5 days later with a new starter installed we made it the rest of the way home with no incident.
Then there was the problems that cropped up while we were in Montana, the Suburban furnace decides it will not function anymore, and the hot water heater tries to catch fire and melts all the wiring on the control panel. And to add the icing to the cake, the water pump for the fresh water tank decides it has had enough and also stops working.
So as far as maiden voyages goes, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times--apologies to Charles Dickens.