What can go wrong next????!!!!!

How does one handle a day when it goes from bad, to worse, to this can’t really be happening -----can it?????!!!!!!!!

Slept good at the rest area about ¼ way through Iowa………….that was the last good thing that happened………….

On our way and all of a sudden Randy notices that the truck and trailer lights are gone……….now I should interject at this point that we are not driving just your run-of-the-mill truck and trailer………..we are driving a train ----with a huge truck, very long trailer, and pulling a snowmobile trailer behind that!!!! (with a snowmobile and sled on it).  So we worry about that and try to imagine what’s causing it for an hour, stop to drop dogs and Randy has me trying to find GMC dealers close that would have time to look at our electrical problem- he gets frustrated and leaves me in the rest area building and I finally find some places to call-  the first 2 don’t answer and the 3^rd says he’s booked up but referred us – we went there and while he’s talking to the mechanic about our problem he thinks of what might be causing the issue!  So he gets the name of a “tractor supply-like” store and we go there and buy some magnetic tail lights for the snowmachine trailer because it appears the wiring in it is drawing power from the truck and trailer making the lights dim and go out--  we gorilla tape those on and we are on our way again!

So that fixed the problem and everything is working good again including the camera he installed on the back of the trailer so he can see the snowmachine trailer behind us.

We are going down the road about ½ hour later and Randy says “I wonder if we should call and get insurance on the snowmachine trailer?”   Talk about jinxing yourself!!!!  Not 10 minutes later Randy says “I can’t see the snowmachine trailer!”

We go to the next exit that we can turn around and sure enough, it’s gone………..  by the time we make it back to where it came off we see flashing lights and I’m just praying nobody got hurt!!! We talk to the cop and he gives us instructions to follow him and the wrecker that picked up our trailer from the middle of I80 with a bazillion cars and semis buzzing around it and we meet at the scale pull off.  It turns out we get a ticket for not securing our load ($112.50) and have to have the trailer put back together – so we spent the nite in the parking lot of the wrecker business in Altoona, Iowa (very quiet and no people to gawk, by the way…) and it’s now 10:35 and we still don’t know when we will be able to go………Have you ever noticed that these crises seem to happen every time we take a dog trip??? 

More to come when we actually make some progress towards getting to Wyoming where we can let the dogs get some exercise and we all can try and get acclimated to the altitude!!!