August 31-Sep 6: On the Road Again

I left Florida a couple days early because of the potential for impending doom.

It’s one of those things… if I left nothing would hit Orlando and if I stayed it would have been as bad as forecast.

I spent the weekend at a campsite in Alabama.

The next adventure is to return to California to clear everything out. But the flight isn’t until September 11th. So I thought I would go and check out Tennessee again. Apparently that angered the tire gods.

I also experienced the stupidity of roadside assistance from USAA and Progressive. They both outsource to another company who ‘lost’ my ticket for nearly 5 hours. Thankfully when someone did arrive he was able to get things fixed up enough that we could get off the highway.

The tire blowout ripped up the electric brake cables, the aluminum side panel and messed the slide gearing up too.

Georgia and I found a hotel and upon tapping the door key we discovered that they had sent us to an occupied room. We left that place and went across the street to another hotel. Georgia didn’t want to get ou of bed in the morning.

The folks at a local RV repair shop were able to replace the tires and do a fix on the slide to at least allow us to limp along. There’s more work that has to be done but that can wait until we get back to Texas.