2009-11-19
We're off
The November weather has been amazing so we were able to have a "leisurely load" of the trailer. The only thing is we seem to have more space than we did last year so we're kinda of wondering what we're forgetting. Hopefully nothing too expensive.... Departure day was a beautiful sunny day with very little traffic on the road even at the border, only a five minute wait and easy questions. For the first time ever we were questioned about Zaph's dog food and luckily we were able to say that we had an unopened bag of food from Missouri. It's usually a push to make it to Troy, Ohio (something to do with 1 or 2 hour waits at the border) but today we arrived around five pm after a leisurely drive. With darkness approaching and Dayton and Cincinnati on the horizon we decided to call it a day. If you never eaten at a Bob Evan's it's worth a try.
Day 2 was to be a short day as we were only going as far as Nashville. Unfortunately it didn't end up being as short as we would have liked. Ed had to put the breaks on when we were going through Louisville and the trailer breaks responded with a good squeal. He turned off the break controller and stopped at the next rest stop. He checked the break pads and found that three of them perfectly fine not showing much wear but the fourth one was missing. Somehow the break pad had fallen off while we were driving through Louisville, guess the nut had worked itself loose. Ed being Ed, he needed to get a new break pad NOW. After calling several shops he finally found a break pad ---- of course they were back in Louisville. A half hour later we were parked behind the break shop and Ed was installing a new break pad ---- I always wondered why we carry all the tools we do. Then it was back on the road with us arriving at the campground in Nashville just before 5pm Central time.
Day 2 was to be a short day as we were only going as far as Nashville. Unfortunately it didn't end up being as short as we would have liked. Ed had to put the breaks on when we were going through Louisville and the trailer breaks responded with a good squeal. He turned off the break controller and stopped at the next rest stop. He checked the break pads and found that three of them perfectly fine not showing much wear but the fourth one was missing. Somehow the break pad had fallen off while we were driving through Louisville, guess the nut had worked itself loose. Ed being Ed, he needed to get a new break pad NOW. After calling several shops he finally found a break pad ---- of course they were back in Louisville. A half hour later we were parked behind the break shop and Ed was installing a new break pad ---- I always wondered why we carry all the tools we do. Then it was back on the road with us arriving at the campground in Nashville just before 5pm Central time.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 10:29 AM 
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