Road Trip

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The rest stop east of Barstow and all is well. The truck pulled Cajon Pass like there was nothing on tow.

The first rest stop in Arizona. By this time I was confident. "Yes, it's quiet. Maybe too quiet."


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Across the Mojave, past Kingman and half way to Seligman. More than 40 miles to town in both directions. Some debris on the road and this, at about 4:00 pm:

Trailer, front left. Well, it looked OK when I started.



I called for Roadside Repair,


and two hours and $380.00 later I was on my way back to Kingman to buy another tire. My trailer spare had gone flat, but they were able to patch it and mount it. The tread from the destroyed tire had wrapped around the axle, but didn't touch the brake wires.

Walmart's tire and lube was about to close, so I spent the night comfortably in the Walmart lot with a dozen other RVers. Not one generator running, thank you very much.

Next morning, business taken care of, and a good breakfast, I was back on the road at 10:00am.

One mile down the road the other tire on the left side destroyed itself, wrapping tread around both the axle and the spring assembly, leaving the still undamaged brake wires sticking out of the mess. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of that.

Another roadside ($97.00) repair, and back to Walmart in Kingman. This time I had to wait a while for the tire to be mounted. They were so busy I had time for lunch and shopping for odds and ends. Then, rather than wait another two or three hours, I changed the tire myself in the parking lot and was again on my way; not much less than 24 hours after the first blowout.

The rest of the trip was uneventful and, after spending the night in the Walmart parking lot in Grants, NM, I drove on down to the ranch, arriving at dawn Sunday morning.

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