Tow Bar and R&R

 

It was Wednesday morning when I woke up. I knew there was a reason I was anxious and did not know why...then it came to me...today we leave for our rest and relaxation trip. I have been working hard every day for a week getting our little place ready to live in and now it was time for me to have some rest away from home. Sherri also has been toiling away the hours getting all the pink jobs done in the new house. She too needs time to rest and have some fun.

I got up and made the coffee and then started getting the outside stuff done so we could leave by 8:00 am. We also are having the tow bar installed today so we can tow our Jeep with us on our future journeys. We are having that done at Hay's RV in Longview Texas. It is about an hour and one half drive for us this morning so we are leaving early to get that done before we continue our trip east. The plan is to get this work done and then head on east as far as Shreveport where we will stop for the night at Diamond Jacks RV park.

The Jeep went up and we went home

Lucky for us home was just across the street so we could keep tabs on it.

We arrived at Hay's on time and soon we were shown where we could park the RV for the day while we waited for the work to be completed....And wait we did. It took them from 10:30 to 4:00 to do all that had to be done. We were both thankful that we had our house there with us to rest in. Come to find out the break system on the Jeep that they had ordered did not have the correct switch in it so we did not get that portion of the order done. We will have to make a return trip to the shop to complete the work next Thursday.

This fat guy came out to hook us up...OH wait that is me!

 They pulled the Jeep up behind us and went through the hitch up procedures. It was pretty much straight forward and we felt comfortable knowing that we could do that part without too much trouble. Now the part about switching the Jeep over to tow...that was a different mater. We had never done this...and had some horror stories told to us by our fellow campers that if you don't dot your I's and cross your T's that you could tear up you vehicle real fast.

We both sat in the Jeep and Sherri read to me while I did each step methodically one by one. We checked and then double checked each other out until we were certain that every step had been completed to the best of our abilities. Then it was time...

We told the car we loved it and that we wished the best for it and us...then pulled out the drive way onto the street and headed to the Interstate and Shreveport...

I could not take my eye off the camera...watching the Jeep and where I was going was a daunting task but I managed until Sherri agreed to watch the Jeep and let me watch the road. All seemed well behind us and we did not see any fire so we assumed that all was well....

It was...we reached the Fly-J just outside of Shreveport where we fueled up and I checked out everything on the Jeep. Everything looked good and I finished fueling up and sent Sherri to pay the bill. In worrying about the Jeep and all I had forgot to hang up the pump handle on the main fuel pump...I was using the slave...so they could not read the register inside. They had to send an attendant outside to hang up the pump so it would register! Sorry! I need this R&R.

We met Rodney and Becky...Sherri's brother and SIL at the fuel stop and they followed us to Diamond Jacks. It was almost 7:30 before we got settled in to our sites and then we had to go eat. That meant I had to unhook the Jeep! Then I would have to hook it up again in the morning! OH ME now I have to start worrying all over again. I am sure that Sherri and I will be able to handle this once we do it enough...

Somewhere in Time