Sunday, August 9, 2020 – Pack Up and Change Tire

Hi Darlin’!
I had a wonderful night sleep last night, which I needed so bad after yesterday! Spent the day mostly relaxing and putting stuff away at a leisurely pace. Not as much as usual, since I didn’t do a full setup here, didn’t do the screen room, so that made it easier. But then, while I was just about to get ready to hook up the truck, I noticed something that I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed the whole time I’ve been here. One of the tires, the one that was the spare that I just changed a few weeks ago because I was worried about a chunk out of the sidewall, had lost a huge chunk of tread! It stretched halfway across the width and at least a foot along the tread, right down to having the steel belts sticking out. I’m surprised it hadn’t gone flat just sitting there! I don’t know how long it’s been like that, but I’m sure glad I saw it before I pulled out tomorrow morning, it certainly would have gone before long! So unfortunately, I had to put the tire with the chunk out of the sidewall back on, not happy about that, but I’m going to have to do some research in the morning to see if there’s a tire shop anywhere along the way that has this brand of tires in the right size. Of course, it made more work for me, but I hopefully dodged a bullet there. I only hope the sidewall on this new tire doesn’t blow, with no spare, that would be bad! I’ll be sweating bullets all the way, or until I get to a tire shop. Worst comes to worse, I’ll get where I’m going, order the tires online and have them delivered to a nearby shop and take the rims in to get them mounted. Thank goodness for my new XL JiffyJack! I’m certainly getting a lot of use out of it these days! Well, that exhausted me, and unfortunately, heat and humidity came back today, so I’m hot and sweaty, too. Finally settled down, got just about everything ready to go, had a nice dinner, now I’m heading for the shower and bed. Good night, baby! Love you!