Leaving Lake Tahoe Monday, we all knew that it would be a long damn drive to Portland, Oregon, however, we weren't prepared for the additional events that would turn a 10 and 1/2 hour drive turn into a 16 hour drive. First of all, our breaks that we got fixed in Los Angeles started to stink really bad driving down the mountain, so we had to go a few miles out of the way to get them checked out. Then we got stopped in California and inspected for fire ants... yeah really. Then we blew out a tire on the trailer somewhere on 395 in a very windy desert (lucky that I worked a few years at Bergie's filling station in Elgin, and had no prob with changing the tire). We didn't have a lug wrench that fit the trailer tire (Thank god the cop that stopped a little later had one). Then the tire that we had only had 20 pounds of air in it, so we had to go 35 mph for 80 miles. Then we noticed after we aired it up that it had a bubble right near the stem, so we stopped in Klamath Falls, Oregon and got it fixed. Then it started to snow in the mountains of Oregon, so we were driving on ice for a good 70 miles. Finally, we got into Portland about 11:00pm. Quite a day!!!!
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