Signs of Spring were evident in our travels today. Daffodils, forsythia, flowering crab and the odd magnolia put forth vivid colours in the morning sunshine!
The excitement for the day was a separating and
shredding driver’s side outer rear tire
and the balding of the inner. Bill had
made arrangements to have the tires changed out when we were in Vancouver WA next week, but
we had to change them out in Burns OR.
Fortunately, Bill had felt a shimmy that seemed to get worse as the day
went on, but could not find a place to safely pull off the road to check them
out. Just outside Burns, there was a
weigh scale and upon inspection, he found the problem. I checked my Ipod Touch for a Les Schwab in Burns; luckily there was one just
two miles away. We limped in; they had
the tires we wanted and in a couple of hours, we were back on the road. We feel so blessed as we know what could have
happened and the damage that would have resulted. PTL!
Our travels took us through some very pretty ranch lands
with huge cattle herds and crops under irrigation. Caught sight of some antelope today, but I
was too slow with the camera to get a shot!
Remember that forsythia? It is likely shivering now! We ran through a snow squall today, between Burns and Bend OR….YUCK! Not something we were prepared to see in
Oregon in April. I told Bill to turn the
rig around and head back to the sunny south ASAP! We try to escape this stuff!
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