A Bang Up Day

Raton, New Mexico
Raton KOA

Six miles is as far as we went today.  So much happened in that six miles and not all of it was good.  

Yesterday Bill and I decided to drive down to the entrance to visit the NRA museum.  When we entered the truck I heard the tire monitors going off.  I checked the monitor and it said the drivers side rear trailer tire was underinflated.  Bill checked the tire and found that it was at 75 psi.  Of course this was yesterday, Sunday.  We went into town and fueled up the truck.

Now we are telling ourselves that it was good that we left he monitor on and it went off and we had the entire day to decide what to do.  The elevation here is 7,100 feet and I don't mind telling you we are struggling with it.  

I looked for our road service card and the only one I could find was expired. I finally called and found out that I had renewed but I have no idea what I did with the card.  All I need was the number from the expired card.  We didn't want the tire changed until we're ready to leave so I called about 8 am today.  The tech arrived less than 30 minutes later and changed the tire.  We decided we wanted to buy new tires so we followed the tech back to the shop.  

All they had in this town was two tires in our size.  Not what we wanted, but it would do in a pinch.  Bill pulled the rig into the parking lot and I went inside to see where they wanted it.  Of course, Monday, is the busiest day of the week.  The owner said just leave it there until they had a bay open.  

The place was packed.  The owner came over to get the keys and said he'd put the fiver in the shop.  The garages were on the side of the building.  He came in and said he nicked it getting into the garage but he would pay for the repairs.  We went outside to see the nick.  At first we couldn't figure out what he hit as there was a piece of a broken taillight caught in the side.  It seems when he went past the vehicles parked in the front, he didn't go wide enough and caught the back end of a 4x4 Ford truck.

He said he was sorry and they'd fix the basement so we could get the door open and closed.  

We were parked back by the house in front of the semi trailer.  The white truck is the one he hit.

This picture shows the back of the white truck he hit and where the coach needed to be backed into.  




Lewis lent us a car and we went to get some lunch.   Bill and I sat there discussing whether we'd just turn around and go back to Casa Grande or keep going.  It didn't help that the lunch was pretty bad.  Carlena and Harry assured us we didn't want to come back to Arizona now.   

When they changed the tire, look what was inside it.  I do believe I will return this to Discount Tire when we get back to Casa Grande.

It was 4:30 by the time we left the garage and decided it was too late to go to Colorado Springs today.  There was a KOA three blocks away and that's where we are tonight.

We've driven this fifth wheel 90,000 miles and never put a ding on it.  

Glad to have this day behind us.

Turtle Safely........