Moving Day & Problem with the Rig

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - Milton, WV

This morning the plan was to be on the road between 9:00am and 9:30am.  I am so seeing a pattern here.  :)  We would have been close today.  I was headed for the Suburban with Gracie at about 9:40am, when our neighbor stopped by to say "Hi".  :)  About 45 minutes later we were finally pulling out.

As we were driving down the road we went over a bridge, suddenly what appeared to be a whole lot of trash was swirling around behind the trailer.  I radioed up to Mike to let him know, but did not think to much of it.  But as we continued down the road the trash continued to swirl behind the trailer.  After about 5 to 10 miles I told Mike that I was going to pull up beside him and check it out.  As soon as I got up to the trailer I could see the leading edge of the front underbelly cover had fallen off and was dragging on the ground.  I immediately radioed him to "Pull Over!".  :(

We spent the next 30 to 45 minutes strapping up the cover, so we could continue down the road.  I always hate doing repair work on the shoulder of an interstate.  Fortunately traffic was not heavy, but it is still no fun at all.  Below are a couple of pictures of what we did to get the cover secured for the rest of the trip.

As you can see from the pictures the one corner is completely gone.  We still don't know why it came down.  The hose that is hanging down is a fuel hose that goes from the gas tank at the back of the rig to the generator at the front of the rig.  And yes it was dragging on the ground also.  :(  It was leaking fuel!

When we got to the first rest area we stopped to wash our hands and take a deep breath and also check to make sure the straps were holding.  Below is a picture I took of the area at the rest stop.  It is beautiful!  :)

We finally made it to the Hunting/Fox Fire KOA safe and sound.  We arrived around 5:00pm and we were both wiped!  The drive was a little stressful.  After getting the rig hooked up to the utilities Mike started dinner.  We had spaghetti for dinner.  It was good.  While Mike was cooking dinner I did get a picture of our campsite.

This is our second time to this campground.  The sites are very close together and last time we could not even open our living room slide all of the way.  This time we made sure we could open all of our slide all the way, especially since we will be here for 2 nights.  When we pulled in there was not anyone next to us, but before dark the campground filled up.  Below is a picture of what it looked like from our picnic table.  :)

After dinner we were both very tired, so we called it a day!

It was another wonderful day!