July 31, 2010

July 31, 2010

OMG! This pretty much sums up the day! Left the cute little campground owned by the German lady fairly late, but Paul seemed ok with it since we had a great stay there. Had gone a little over an hour, tooling along at a good pace, pretty good road, and nice weather conditions. Came up to a bridge that had quite a big bump! and low and behold, we broke another spring, on the opposite side of the last one! There we were, along side the road pondering our next move, yet we really couldn’t move! Luckily for us just up a little ways was a picnic area pull-off, the Morely River recreation site. I’m not thinking camper repair was the recreation it was referring to but it worked for Paul. Decided a picture of the sign was sufficient, thought a better would be of Paul under the camper making the repair, but decided against it for obvious reasons!! Paul managed to move the truck and camper that far so that he had space to work. Since my husband is a smart, level-headed man, he had bought an extra spring at the last place when we had the repair done the first time. Now all we had to hope was that he had the tools, or at least some of them for the job! Apparently he had enough of what he needed, and about 2 hours later we were back out on the road! A new spring in place and a new tire, since the other one was pretty much ruined in the process of the spring breaking. Yeah Paul, he is my Hero!!!

This road is the same we travelled on on the way up so many of the sites we had already seen, however we did spot a black bear eating alongside the road. We stopped and were able to pull very close to him without him running away, about 10 feet from the truck, mind you my window was up! But it still was amazing!! The girls and I are planning on returning home thru Indiana so we can go to the camper dealers and pick out our new, and improved camper!!!

On the way up we contended with rain and road washing out, but it seems a new problem is at hand on the return trip. There seems to be a lot of forest fires causing roads to be closed! We are driving through smoke as I speak, guess we’ll keep driving hoping not to get stuck! Yikes, shouldn’t say this, but whats next?!!!