Ok folks here's something you don't ever want to do ----- NEVER leave the water running in the bathtub to water your plants you've brought along and then go out to dinner for a couple of hours. We met some friends and Don and his wife Claudia (Searchers) at Mt. Shasta on Tuesday night. This was our second night out. We had a great time meeting our friends and making new ones of Don and Claudia.
So the guy next to us sees the water running from the basement and thankfully turns the water off. Otherwise it would have been a lot worse. We opened up the basement doors and turned on the lights and up in the bathroom we sopped as much water up as we could and left a fan running there to help dry things out and went to bed. Next morning all was dry except the lowest part of the basement. We did not open the belly. I know I should have but I can't get up and down to do that and decided most of the water would probably drain out the screw holes or find some other outlet. For a while it looked like my trailer was leaking seriously. We had a lot of up and down driving the next morning and I think and hope all of the water in the belly drained out. All was completely dry by end of day. But you should know that it has been very hot out here. Triple digit days.
OK... so then we're about 80 miles up the road just passing thru Ashland, OR when I hear a loud "POP" and feel like I've hit a large hole in the road! Well there was no hole in the road and when I look in rear view mirror I see stuff flying from the right wheel well on the trailer. We had blown the right rear trailer tire. Just not our day. It tore off the little fender skirt but appears to be the only damage. Got a new tire just up the road at Medford.... if you ever need a tire and are in this region go to Les Schwab Tires. I drive into their parking lot and a young man jumps out in front of my rig and directs me to parking on the side and immediately finds out what I need and checks availability and gets the tire and gets the changing process going and by the time I hobble back to my truck they've changed the tire!
Here's hoping we've gotten all our "boo-boos" out of the way for this trip!
Anyway... never leave the water running!
See you all on down the road... HamRad
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