Well so much for smooth sailing.........

Unbelievably (except for those of you that are accustomed to hearing of tails of woe) we had a vehicle problem before we even left the yard!! Somehow in backing up to pack the dogs in, the fuel line under the truck got torn off - so Randy made a call to Penlands for "an emergency appointment" - thankfully they happened to already be in the shop and they fixed it as soon as we got there!! Thank you Mike, Sue and Mikey!!

Got over the bridge and were on our way to Seney to a roadside park we like to stay at and the headlights started going off and on, off and on....... Randy thinks he got it figured out but it made for a slightly anxious trip for a few hours.....

Left Seney in the morning and were doing well making it to our appointment for rabies shots at Tim Hunt's vet office - got them done and off again thinking we would make it to Iron River to pick some harnesses for our friend Mark Hartum before night-time and POP!! - sure enough a flat tire on the trailer - so we call Debbie (the gal that makes the harnesses) and she suggests a fix-it shop to call - they arrive on the scene and (in the dark on the side of the highway) he changes the tire to the spare and Randy notices that the inner side of the tire looks like it has been ground off and then ripped!!!! so we start again for Debbie's (she actually came to lead us back into Iron River, WI where she lives) and we start smelling burning rubber and know that something "not good" is happening - by the time we go the 10 miles to Iron River we pull into a construction business parking lot and look at the wheels and the tires had come off completely and we were driving on bent rims!!!!!! What Randy says is that the sidewalls of the 3 tires were rubbing on the fender wells and that's what caused the problem - but we don't know why......so we are buying 4 more tires and 5 offset rims to give us more clearance.....just when you thought you had used up your "problem allotment"!!

So today we are sitting in downtown Iron River next to a hardware store, which is a perfect spot for Randy to get all that he needs to finish those little "projects" he didn't get done before we left. Tonite we are invited to Debbie and Steve's (I would try to spell their name but know I would butcher it - they run the Windago harness company) and I will have more updates tomorrow - I know I will still be here because the new tires and rims won't be here until tomorrow!!!!