What? Again?

September 7, 2020 / Rex / 0 Comments

9/3/2020

Well they had the coach all day, dropped it off around 7:30 and picked it up at 5:00. Sure made for a long boooooring day.
Fingers crossed that the new cadilic converter and the tune up did the trick. 65? Miles and so far so good., I did take the longer flatter route south, the same one I took going to Kalispell 2 weeks ago. So the real test will be tomorrow when we climb back up to Missoula. I’m not sure what’s in store after that, new territory.

We stopped for the night at a scenic over look , just a couple of miles down the road from Ronan MT, which is where we stayed on our way to Kalispell.

What? Again? Another 3 day weekend and we have no reservations.
I hope it keeps cooling off good at night for the next 3 nights, we may be spending them in parking lots, it’s Labor Day weekend and because of not being sure they wouldn’t run into a big problem with the coach we don’t have any reservations anyplace so we may not be able to fine a park to stay in until Monday night, today’s Thursday.

9/4/2020

We pulled out of our rest area spot about 7:00 This morning and drove 371 miles but along the way we needed gas so we pulled into this little station, called themselves a truck stop, well they did have diesel and a large gravel parking area. Anyway someone was in the only convenient, for us, pump so I pulled around back for a few minutes, did a quick walk around and ( please insert bad words of your choice here) What? Again? ANOTHER FLAT TIRE, well at least it’s not Sunday like the last one, this was the drivers side outside dully. Mary called a place up the road while I was taking off the tire, 10 minutes or less later we were on the road for the 15 mile round trip drive. They put in a new valve stem and in just a few minutes we were on our way back. A few minutes after that I was letting the jack down and we were ready to gas up and roll on down the road. I don’t know why when we had the new tires put on they didn’t replace the old valve stems, GRRRRR. Anyway all is well and we didn’t loose that much time and since we’re staying in a Cabela’s parking lot tonight, it insured that we didn’t arrive toooo early.

A few pics from today’s drive.