At least it happened near help.....................

 We got started to Laconia at about 10 in the morning and not even half way to Newberry I started to hear a clunking noise in the yellow truck...........so I stopped and felt the wheels for heat........nothing; got back in and drove another few miles and the clanking got worse!!!!  Stopped again and smelled and felt all the wheels and looked under the truck.......nothing!  Drove a few more miles and started feeling like the truck wasn't steering right; stopped again and this time I told Randy he needed to drive it and see if he could figure out what the problem was!  So that meant that I had follow Randy and had to drive the big blue truck pulling the trailer!!!!!!  Never done that!!!!!!!  At least it was on a relatively clean road with little traffic but it made me very nervous!!!!  Especially when we got into town and I had to make a turn following Randy into the Ford dealership!!  Didn't hit anything (phew!!!) and we dropped the yellow truck off to our friend Frank Caldwell - not knowing for sure what was wrong with it nor how long it would take to fix we just decided to leave it in Newberry.

Not too long after on the road Frank sent us a movie of the truck on a jack and he was able to wobble the tire back and forth sideways!!!!  He told us that the hub had exploded!!!!! and that it could have been "ugly"!!!!!  So a Blessing that it didn't happen farther away going 60mph!!!!!!!

We made it down to Dundee and parked for the nite in the Cabela's lot - got up next morning and shopped and had breakfast at Bob Evans - Tuesday nite we made it to Syracuse NY and stayed in a Walmart lot and then Wednesday pulled in to Laconia late afternoon and parked in the spot we have stayed for a few years - a dead end road going to some kind of city public works............we were all set to stay and got a knock on the door - the state police............!!  Someone had called and complained about the dogs and they told us we would have to move!!!  About a half hour later we found the Walmart and parked, only to find out it was a "no parking" posted area!!!  So we moved again!!!!!  Kind if frustrating!!

So today we are at Walmart and I am trying to figure out the covid testing schedule for us to try and cross the border into Quebec on Monday - plus it's going to cost $139 each!!!!!  That makes the $100 tests that we got in Port Huron to go to Canada last September a deal!!!!

Tonite is the "draw" meeting at Patrick's Pub so dinner out!!

I will write when I get a chance after the first leg of the race tomorrow!!!