And on the 8th day, he rested. A quiet day, which is what it was supposed to be. Won't bore you with blogs on eats, sleeps or more eats and more sleeps, but I did have my first equipment failure.
This morning, I was surprised to find both trailer wheels dead flat! I had gotten my first experience with "goathead" thorns. Yesterday, when I had pulled the rig off the road through some grass, I noticed these innocent looking stickers in all my tires. Well, I carefully pulled them out, but evidently not all of them. The trailer wheels were softer rubber and had come "off the shelf" with very thin tubes... A trip to the local bike store scored some heavier, INLINE brand tubes and I installed Tufty tape tire liners as well. Talk about good timing, this could have happened in a lot of much less convenient places. (Whit, could this be the guardian angel!) Also broke down (in a very different sense) and got a wireless odo-speedometer. Gary, now the hightechgadgetguy. Hmm, maybe I need to get one of these for my '64 Ford pickup...
This morning, I was surprised to find both trailer wheels dead flat! I had gotten my first experience with "goathead" thorns. Yesterday, when I had pulled the rig off the road through some grass, I noticed these innocent looking stickers in all my tires. Well, I carefully pulled them out, but evidently not all of them. The trailer wheels were softer rubber and had come "off the shelf" with very thin tubes... A trip to the local bike store scored some heavier, INLINE brand tubes and I installed Tufty tape tire liners as well. Talk about good timing, this could have happened in a lot of much less convenient places. (Whit, could this be the guardian angel!) Also broke down (in a very different sense) and got a wireless odo-speedometer. Gary, now the hightechgadgetguy. Hmm, maybe I need to get one of these for my '64 Ford pickup...
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