Well, our first real opportunity to update the blog since we have left. A few minor inconveniences surfaced, but nothing major that we could not deal with:
We got on 70 West, just past Frederick, MD When I realized that the door to the Weiner Bagel II was not latched. 65mph (or 112 kilometers per hour, as the Weiner Bagel was manufactured in Canada) and Wini decides to check out the scenery outside of the door which is hovering open!
Duke, the big ugly dog decided that he was going to act up too. We made it into the mountains in Western Maryland when he decided that he wanted to be the driver and tried to weasel his way in under my feet while driving! Had to pull over near the runaway truck ramp, which scared the crap out of Joyce because she thought my brakes had gone out. After transferring both dogs to the other car, we were off...well almost. The shifter linkage had gotten a little loose from it sitting so long. Fire ants were EVERYWHERE! Had no way of laying down on the ground to get to the linkage, so I had to wait for it to cool down a bit before I was able to get a wrench on it to tighten it down. Part of the problem was that I had stopped downhill and it was just hard to get it into gear with the Jeep trying to push it downhill too.
We made it to the Mason-Dixon Campground that night. Nice little place. We decided that after busting our butts packing and everything, that we would take an extra day to get some much needed r&r, so we spent 2 days there. It was a nice little campground. Got to go fishing and caught a couple too! The campground had full hookups and was very quiet. It was just into PA.
We packed everything up and were off with plans of making it as far as Columbus. We made it to Washington, PA to the KOA campground. We had another minor problem that was a quick and easy fix. The negative terminal on the battery broke at a truck stop where we were got fuel. After diagnosing it, the girl behind the counter at the truck stop told us there was a NAPA a block away. One battery terminal later and we were back in business. We left this morning (Thursday). We got almost to Columbus, OH when I felt a shimmy in the front end. Tire. The tread tore off of the tire, exposing the belts. Pulled over to a gas station. Come to find out, we were in....yup, you guessed it...BALTIMORE, OH!! It was like Baltimore was issuing one last swift kick in the pants! Several trips to a few tire places and many calls and dealings with the locals, we found that Wal Mart (which was the next exit up) had a size smaller tire. One of the guys there stayed after his shift to help us with mounting the new tires.
We finally wound up at the campground we had picked out in our original plan of being our first stop, in Columbus. The Cross Creek Campground is...well...packed! The KOA was pretty busy in PA, but we got the last site available in the campground, minutes before they closed. It is nice here. There are activities scheduled just about every day and they have lots to do! Too bad we aren't planning on staying.
The plan is to make it to Indiana tomorrow (Friday). With the 2 new tires on the front, we are keeping our fingers crossed that we will make it with no problems. Everything else seems to be doing good. I do need to tighten the alternator belt before we go (or replace it), but just minor stuff. Have all my tools with me, so shouldn't be too bad.
Anyway, will try to update when we get to Valpo!
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