Hi everyone, day two of our travel route back to Canada. Presently we are parked at the AOK RV Park in Amarillo, Texas, Exit 80 on Hwy40. The weather is beautiful and we are having the door open. We lost yet another hour when we crossed the state line, and it is still sunny at 6 o Clock.
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| Driving through New Mexico |
So a bit of a recap which I had meant to post yesterday, and I explain why I didn’t.
About two hours out after we left yesterday our RV park in Arizona, and driving at 55 mph on I-10, which by the way has a terrible patched up right lane, there was an incredible loud bang and we knew we had a tire problem. The rear right tire of our travel trailer had exploded, and bits and pieces of rubber were flying off. We made it to a wider shoulder right after a merging side road to assess and see what we could do. The explosion had damaged the upper side panel and much more underneath the trailer. Benno dismantled that piece and set to work to get that damaged tire off and to put the spare on. I don’t need to detail all that as you probably all have changed tires before.
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| The spare tire |
I took lots of photos! The transport truck traffic was very heavy and they kept on flying by at 75mph. When we were done with the job, but could not bring the spare to the 80psi as it is marked on the trailer, because our compressor only came up to 60psi, we drove on. It was not far to the New Mexico border where we went into a Pilot truck station and there we were able to fill the spare tire to the proper psi.
Crossing into New Mexico we lost an hour in addition to the time we had spent changing the tire, so a short driving day.
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| Heat outlet under a cabinet by the door |
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| That is where the heat outlet is located |
In the evening we pulled into a Lowe’s parking lot in Alamogordo, NM where we spent the night.
After we had settled in and had dinner, I was downloading 45 photos that I had taken yesterday and planned on using some of them for my post. Something went wrong and I think I deleted the photos before they were all downloaded. Short story short, ALL photos were lost! I was then too upset to post anything without a single photo.
Today was much better with no incidents and we took our time on the highway 70 direction Roswell, but didn’t go there to see the aliens, then onto 60 and to 40 through some nice scenery and some kind of boring, flat land. At Bovina and Hereford I took some photos of the thousands of cattle along the road waiting to be transferred. Good thing they do not know where to. There were lots of very long trains running parallel to the highway to keep us entertained.
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| A couple lookouts waiting for the transport |
Hopefully the rest of our homebound trip will be uneventful. If I can post, I will, otherwise it will be from home.
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| Our site at the AOK RV Park in Amarillo |
Take care everyone and thanks for dropping in.
Hope the rest of your trip is safe ! A scary thing to happen and having to change a tire on the highway.
ReplyDeleteWe hope so. Yes, changing a tire by the highway is something terrible and we'd done it before.
DeleteNon-Rv'ers think the RV life is filled with rainbows and butterflies. We know better. That was a sucky day, hopefully the rest of your trip is smooth sailing.
ReplyDeleteYep, I hope it will all be good until home.
DeleteOh dear! Glad it was an easy fix.
ReplyDeleteNew Mexico has the longest trains, i love counting the engines. Some front, back and middle!!
The tire change went fine, the rest of the fixes are ahead of us. Yes, I sometimes counted the wagons :-)
DeleteAfter having several Blowouts on different Trailers. I was told the pressure on the side of the tire is the Maximum Pressure they should be inflated to. The last time, the Tire Shop told me to use Five PSI less to allow for expansion. Haven't had a blowout since.
ReplyDeleteSafe Travels and Enjoy the scenery.
It's about time.
Thanks Rick. Benno had been checking all tires the day before and also let out some pressure as he knows about it. However, it still did happen.
DeleteDid you buy another spare?
ReplyDeleteThat is the first priority as soon as we can replace it with the same type to match all the others. We will before home.
DeleteCool I knew you would have a plan.
DeleteWow, that must have shot your blood pressure right on up to the moon! Glad you were able to change tires and not get run over - so scary being on the side of the road. Hopefully all will go well from now on.
ReplyDeleteThat was no fun and Benno torqued the tire too after the change. I personally think we should have two spare tires, just in case :-)
DeleteI have to thank the Lord for not allowing that to happen to me .. yet anyway. I just can't imagine how scary that was. It sure did some damage too. The good news is you two know how to fix it with no problem!! I sure hope the rest of your trip is UNEVENTFUL!!
ReplyDeleteHopefully you won't have this happen to you. The rest of the trip was ok though.
DeleteOh no!! It happenes to all of us and it so stressful at the time. Safe travels the rest of the way home. Contessa
ReplyDeleteThe stress was to keep driving without another spare tire. Thank goodness we didn't need one.
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