Saturday, July 09, 2005

Riggens Idaho and Home

We awoke to a complete weather change. Rain and wind came in last night and it looked like it would stay. Our nights lodging was less then great, as we tried to get to sleep the people up stairs were letting their kids run back and forth bumping into the walls. Mike called their room and asked them to quiet down which did the trick.

Everyone met at a local cafe for breakfast. We had heard they had big pancakes and that was the clincher. As our morning advanced folks said their good byes and headed home. We loaded up and drove north.

At the top of the hill outside Lewiston we started feeling a vibration in the truck. We thought it was the road brought on by all the construction. So we stopped and checked the load but saw nothing. Just out side of Moscow we heard a whoosh and a thump and the vibration stopped. On the edge of Moscow we stopped for gas and as we were leaving Mike noticed that the tread on the trailer tire had come completely off. The tire was holding air but it definitely needed changing. Mike swapped it with the spare and then we drove around Moscow looking for Les Schwab. Once we found it we had Les check the air and chatted about why our tire came apart.

Everything went well and we made good time the rest of the way to Cd'A. It didn't take long to unload at the Beckwith’s, so we made it home early enough to put our equipment away and clean some of the cloths. It was a wonderful trip, both Linda and I were so glad we were able to go.

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