We had a great start - I had the best night of sleep before a trip ever and we were on the road by 5:10 a.m. No traffic through NYC and had breakfast in NJ. About the only eventful thing to speak of before 8:00 was a Annalise vs. a mosquito and the mosquito won.
After breakfast we had a nice four hour haul to somewhere past the mid-point of PA and stopped for lunch. We were in great shape to make it to Zanesville, OH by dinner until we got in the truck and it wouldn't start. It would fire, but just wouldn't start - not picking up fuel, in my opinion. 30 minutes later, AAA Road Side Service is there and the guy is trying to figure it all out. When he climbed under the truck and starting banging, I thought we were doomed - what could possibly be the issue under there??? He tells me to hit the key and it starts!!!! Turns out we may have an intermittent fuel pump issue and he was banging on the gas tank which is where the fuel pump is and that sort of got things worked out!! Off we go - with plans of contacting a Chevy dealer in Zanesville when we get there. At least tomorrow's Monday.
Scott in the green emergency vest - the dude who saved the day!
So we keep heading west on on the PA Turnpike, have nice puffy clouds to look at and went through a lot of tunnels that we've never been through before - the kids loved it since they try to hold their breath through every tunnel....
It was a little after 3 p.m. when one of the trailer tires blew. Get it off on the shoulder safely and call Good Sam's for road side service. I'm really wanting to make it to Ohio by dinner so I get started getting off the spare, jacking the trailer and taking off a mangled tire. Mind you, this is sooooo much fun with 18 wheelers doing 65 mph about 8 ft away. Luckily the flat was on the passenger side... The road side service dude got wrong directions from Good Sam's and I was done changing the flat by the time he got there. So I had him top off the air on all the tires and we made arrangements for him to come to camp in the morning and give me two new tires - our current spare isn't looking so good!
Thank goodness for Maribeth! While Lisa was on FB sharing our saga and managing 4 little ones, Maribeth was gettin' dirty!
But we are now camped in a little place in Donegal, PA. We had I nice clean pool to ourselves for about an hour, Lisa and the kids are making dinner, I'm having a Blue Point Hoptical Illusion and Annalise is casting Harry Potter spells on Graeme. Tomorrow's another day!
:( walter!!!! Glad you made it to camp though...hoping that you got all the kinks out today and "smooth driving" from here! (Can soooo hear your tone in the writing btw lol) :)
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