the woes of the road

sorry there have been no

photos the last couple of days

we have seen nothing but the

inside of tire shops

we left glacier in the middle

of a driving rain storm on the 19th as scheduled

(the smart ones got hooked up before the rain)

by the time we got hooked up

we were both soaked to the bone.

that was the first part of our adventure

we made it all of 31 miles to the lovely

town of browning, mt before one of the tires

fell off of the trailer, I didn't even notice

why would i, who needs all 4 tires

some kind tourist pulled up beside us and said gosh

you might need the tire that just went flying off

somewhere behind that building a few blocks back.

i walked back to survey the damage when another

nice tourist pulled up in her new suv with our

tire stashed nicely in her back seat.

of course there was no one willing to give us assistance

the people of browning didn't seem to be very tourist friendly.

we decided to drive to cut bank and see what we could

find there.  we found a tire shop willing to jump

right in and help us out, after looking at the tire

studs he didn't feel comfortable with the length of the

old studs, it seemed we were not getting enough

bite with the lug nuts.  he could have new studs in by morning.

off we go heading off on our travels once again

we arrived at the next town about 30 miles down the road

when i let rose marie out to get something at the

drug store when she noticed that the brakes were

smoking.  we again started looking for some place

to have them looked at.  finally found a car quest and

were followed in by a couple of local characters who asked

if we were aware that we had a bad wheel bearing

of course knowing little more that wheel bearings

had something to do with the wheels I assumed

that it was the one that had grease leaking out of it.

wrong again, he walked me around to the other

side of the trailer to show me that one of the other tires

was about to fall off.  the two guys called a friend

who came down and had us follow him up to his shop

where a couple of more guys came out, looked and

promptly said gosh looks you got a problem.

when they started taking things apart, 2 of the wheels came off without

even the need for a lug wrench, the hubs just fell off.

so now the trailer is sitting out in front of their shop with all

4 tires off, 2 new hubs ordered 8 new bearings, all new seals

and 4 sets of new brakes, which we were the parts runners

85 miles each way. haven't been up there this morning but

I guess we will see whats happening soon.