Hi!
Yesterday (Monday) we spoke with Burpey Pond on the phone as we ate lunch in Mitchell, SD. Two hours later we were turning onto I-90 at a very low rate of speed - fortunately! Apparently the bracket holding the left rear axle on our trailer had broken a while ago, as the broken ends were all rusty, but - fortunately - it chose this time to let go. The left rear tire swung under the rear of the camper taking out the plumbing on our kitchen sink, the electric brakes locked, and we sat blocking the intersection. Everyone was wonderful. Folks stopped, but the job was too big for us "non-wrecker" folks, so the police called the wrecker company. He lifted the camper enough for us to pull the left rear wheel back into the right place and we took my towing chain and chained the axle in place - or sort of the right place!! We were then able to drive - slowly - to Jack's Campers, only three miles away. He sold us all of the parts we needed, but didn't have a welder capable of repairing a bracket on the axle hanger. Luckily there is a welding fabricator about three miles from there, with a campground in between, so we made an 8:00 appointment this morning and they are working on us as we type.
WHEW!
We can only imagine what would have happened if the bracket had let go two minutes later, as we would have been cruising down the interstate at 65 MPH. Or back on the Alaska Highway or other roads where we went for miles and saw no one........
Everyone has been super, no one was hurt and we hope to be back on our way home in a few hours.
Hope JR and Boody save some onion rings for me!
Love you all!
Steve
P.S, Bonnie is typing feverishly on another computer here in the Mitchell Public Library, and she may be writing the same things that I am, but that wouldn't surprise any of us now, would it!!!
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