Thursday, August 4, 2011

Sooooooo close

We were supposed to pick up the motorhome today, but it’s not *quite* ready. Imagine that.

We’re supposed to be parked in a state park outside of Longmont tonight, so we drove to a hotel in Longmont instead. The Holiday Inn Express. This is the newest nicest hotel we’ve been in lately.

Did I mention the right front tire? Scallops out of the outside edge. We’ve been watching those tires for years. No sign of unusual wear and suddenly there are giant scallops out of the side of the tread. We blamed it on the tow truck driver; another part of the tow damage. We figure he skipped it on the road while he was towing it in for repairs. Today we found out what really happened. In 2006, the tire was put on backwards. This is a tire that is designed to rotate a specific direction. There is even a small arrow next to the tread (that we never noticed) indicating the correct direction of rotation. The alignment is perfect, but after five years of rotating the wrong direction, the bands inside the tire started coming apart. The structure of the tire collapsed. That’s how all of a sudden the tire showed bizarre wear.

A hold-up on the replacement tires. Can’t get them to Denver until next week. We did get to stop by, drive the rig around the parking lot, level it, work the slides, shuffle stuff around in it, and shut it all back down again. We had to give it back, but it felt good to be in it for a little while.


Meanwhile. Along the way.

Wildcat Bluff preserve. High plains desert outside Amarillo in northern Texas.








I stood on top of the bluff looking out. Near the bluff, a stream with riparian habitat. A historic food, water, shade, and rest stop along a branch of the Santa Fe Trail.




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