8\/8\/2020<\/p>\n
We pulled out of Raban tires in Clarksville IN this morning about 8:15. He (the nice young man working in the shop on a Saturday morning) had to take off one front hubcap and add an extension to the valve stem. That\u2019s the one I was having trouble with, I didn\u2019t know how to get the hubcap off, I think I do now, I almost bent it trying to get it off before giving up last night. Also I had trouble with the inside dually, I don\u2019t know why with so many duals on the road that they don\u2019t put on the correct kind of valve stems. At least this guy had the correct kind of valve stems he could have put on but I didn\u2019t want to hang around that long……. I was wanting to get out of hades. When we get back I may get them changed out. At least now I know we\u2019re stating \u00a0the epic voyage with the correct tire pressure. It took him about 1\/2 hour, we expected to pay but he said he wasn\u2019t going to charge us for just checking tire pressure.<\/p>\n
The destination is classified, TOP SECRET even! I will tell you we were going to go to Colorado but I discovered that they are working on the top of Pikes Peak and the only way to get all the way to the top is tram or shuttle bus. Going to pass on both options so we picked out a different destination.<\/p>\n
Mary is behind the wheel for a while, today wil<\/p>\n
l be a long drive day while we attempt to escape the hades heat.<\/p>\n
Fleeing hades, only I don\u2019t think we made it YET!!<\/p>\n
PM – \u00a0what went wrong? It sure feels like we\u2019re still in the land of hades!!!!! So we\u2019re in a rest area just outside of Davenport Iowa. You know the tires I had checked out this morning? Well, I got out to take a look around and one of the outside dually’s is flat……… UGH it\u2019s hotter than blazes out. Anyway, I break out my RV, supposed to be good, air compressor. It runs a while, the directions say it will shut off when it gets hot, well I got some air in the tire and low and behold it shuts off. The directions say to wait about 1\/2 hour and try it again, at this point we’re running the generator and A\/C. Driving was not to terrible bad but stopped was sure another story………… Finally gave up on it and drove about 9 miles to a casino parking lot. Right now, 6:00, we\u2019re in the shade of a semi trailer. I\u2019m going to give the air compressor until about 7:00 and try it again, it it wont come on there is a Walmart just down the road, I\u2019m going to buy another compressor. The goal is to air the tire up tonight and see it looses air by morning. I\u2019m hoping it was the valve stem cover that caused the problem and I can\u2019t tell that unless I can get some air in the tire. Haven\u2019t had trouble in the past and I couldn\u2019t find anything in the tire.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is Sunday, I\u2019m not sure where I\u2019m going to be able to get it looked at if it\u2019s a problem. Walmart?<\/p>\n
This is NOT how I envisioned my day going we had planned to drive at least a couple of more hours.<\/p>\n
Dang I almost forgot to mention the wind, there I mentioned it. Kinda blowing from the side, because it was hades hot I wanted to drive with the window down, this caused my seatbelt to noisily flat around but it was toooo hades hot to roll the window up. Not only was it kinda windy but most of the drive was kinda north, I may have sunburnt\/wind burnt my left arm.<\/p>\n
As mentioned earlier, Mary drove for about an hour this morning, we were going to swap out some more but I didn\u2019t get to tired…… I think I was to excited about getting out of hades. Anyway, Mary learned one lesson the hard way, when she was getting out of the cab, she hit her forehead on the mirror, knocked her glasses off, small scrape that will probably turn black and blue.<\/p>\n\n\t\t