Pennsylvania, Matamoras - Thursday, June 4, 2015 - Tri-State RV Park

Although we enjoy this lifestyle, sometimes it can be frustrating.  Last month we had a blowout on one of our steer tires while we were on our way to pick up two new steer tires.  Yesterday we had a blowout on one of the tires on the tag axle.  This time we weren’t on our way to buy tires.  Our plan was to buy six more tires for the tag and rear axles when we got back to Indiana in July.

 

 

We were enjoying some really great views before the blowout happened.

This time there was no advance notice that something was wrong before the blowout.  But, there was no loss of control, Greg brought the coach to a controlled stop on the paved berm.  We were on a long gradual upgrade so we were very visible to traffic.  Which was a good thing because we sat there for over four hours.  Our Good Sam roadside assistance wasn’t able to help us like they did the last time – no tires big enough could be found, they were going to have to be ordered and they won’t help with getting a used tire because of liability issues.  We kind of thought we were a liability sitting on the side of the road.  We had to call 911 where we got the phone number of a couple of tire repair service businesses.  Greg finally located a used tire that was “about” right and one of the tire repair services came out and installed it.  I didn’t keep track of the number of phone calls he had to make to accomplish this.

We drove 11 miles to an exit that had a truck stop and a Comfort Inn.  We decided to check into the Comfort Inn instead of staying in the coach in the truck stop.  We had to have electricity to recharge our phones J  Twin Rocks restaurant was right next door and supper was pretty good.

 

 

This morning we found out that the new tires roadside assistance ordered for the tag axle wouldn’t be here on Friday as we thought yesterday – they will be here Tuesday.  Staying at the Comfort Inn was going to be rather expensive and we sure didn’t want to stay that long in a truck stop so we decided to move (rather slowly so we didn’t heat up the “about right” tire too much) about 40 miles to Tri-State RV Park.  Greg is going to think my explanation of what happened is rather simplified because he has spent hours finding tires, coordinating someone to get them installed and working with the campgrounds we had reservations for in the next few weeks to get those reservations adjusted.

Our trip to the campground was another scenic trip but we couldn’t enjoy it too much wondering if we were going to make it to the campground.

 

 

The personnel here at the campground are very friendly and accommodating.  The campground is a small country campground – full hook ups but no amenities that we have seen so far, definitely not a destination campground but it will work out well for what we need right now.