We all know that sailing is just a small part of what we do.
We left Urbana yesterday after work and drove about four hours. Today our
adventures involved driving across Ohio and Pennsylvania, and into New York.
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| Ohio? Pennsylvania? |
Once in New York we stopped for dinner in Port Jarvis, just over the Penn/NY border. Sadly, our meal
was overshadowed because we realized that the tire on our trailer was about to
fall off. It turns out that after 120,000 miles the bearings had given up the
ghost. The trick was whether we’d caught
it in time that we only had to replace the bearings (we hadn’t) or if we had to
also replace the axle (we did). Still, the meal and the beer (mine was called
something like Milltown Kilt Spinner) were lovely.
We limped a mile to AutoZone hoping, as they often do, someone on
staff might be able to help us figure out how to solve our problem. They didn’t
have anyone right there but they sent us to a little garage two blocks away,
which is about as far as we felt safe driving, as wobbly as the wheel was. (I
LOVE Auto Zone), As we left the AutoZone the skies opened up so I got to use my
favorite joke: “It could be worse, it could be raining.”
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| Kim's Shop |
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See the Rain?!
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The mechanic, Kim, took the wheel off and broke the news to
us that we needed a new axle. He sent us four miles down the road to the
Tractor Supply place that, miraculously, had just the new axle we needed. Best
$140 I ever spent!
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| For those of you who might not realize, that end of the axle is supposed to be smooth! ;-) |
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| look what a good job we did ruining our axle! |
He and Ben reassembled the axle and the wheels and we headed
off into the sunset. We won’t make it to Sandy Bay quite as soon as we
expected, but much much sooner than we feared!
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| Our savior!! Thank you Kim!! BTW, that's a Scots N Water in his hand! We tried to indoctrinate him.... |
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