Woke up Thursday morning to find an e-mail from Brad that everybody bailed. We all left at different times. Jumped in the camper and headed out at 8am. GPS said I had an ETA to RC for 4pm so I thought, awsome, as long as nothing goes wrong I can get there and have some beer and dinner before anybody else shows up
Border crossing was effortless. Camper was sucking back the fuel, costing around $80 US to fill the tank. Made it to the Cicero Walmart for 11:30am. Did my shopping, fawking bank card would not work so had to pay cash
Headed out for the rest of the trip and around 2 hours later saw a bunch of smoke coming off my trailer. Stopped on the side of the road and my tire fell off. Limped it to the next exit and found a gas station to stop at.
Tore down the wheel and found NO wheel bearing left. Called Andrew and they where still in Cicero so they stopped at the parts store and picked up some bearings. 2 hours later they caught up only to find the bearings where wrong. Off they went again with the pieces of the old bearings to measure from and a lot of driving later they came back at 8:30pm with the right parts. 20 minutes later and we where back on the road, arriving at RC for 11:30pm. Some :beer: later and off to sleep.
The next morning we woke to lots of rain. after breakfast we headed out on the trail with Mitko breaking his Pan-hard bar about 30 minutes later. Back to camp and off to the local farm welding place for repairs. Then back to the camper for Lunch:
After lunch, Mitko jumped in with me and off the the trails we went again. about an hour later and I ripped the ram mount off the axle on my truck:
Of course it was pouring rain. Lucky I left the old mount on the axle from before I relocated the ram so we where able to bolt it up to that and get it back to camp. Off to the farm welding place for Brad and Mitko to pick up his Panhard bar while Andrew and I welded back up my truck. After everything was back together we played on the comp course for a while. Both Brad and I doing some stuff we never have attempted before:
Back to the camper for dinner and a night of drinking in the camper, out of the rain. :beer::beer:
