Summer Travel Map

Friday, October 28, 2011

Heading east toward Arizona


October 28, 2011
Cathedral City/Palm Springs, California

We left Lompoc yesterday morning, bidding the Elks adieu.  We'd planned to stay at the Elks Lodge in Indio, which breaks up the 12-hour drive from Lompoc to Phoenix quite nicely, but they're hosting some sort of RV Rally and are all booked up.  Since we'd planned to catch up with our Canadian friends, John and Kristine, anyway, we ended up staying a little to the west, near Palm Springs.  This Outdoor Resorts park was one of the original developments, and it's a nice park.  We booked a space here for two nights.

We'd made arrangements to catch up with John and Kristine today for lunch, so it was a bit of a surprise for them when we passed their site yesterday afternoon.  We joined them for cocktail hour (OK, they came to pick us up in the golf cart, since parking at each site is tight), and then again for lunch today.  We had a chance to catch up, as we haven't seen them "live" since May of 2009, and compare notes on coach upgrades.  It was good to see them...

This afternoon, I had great plans - for a nap.  Unfortunately, I just happened to look at the Rover and it was leaning to one side.  What the...?  Yep, a screw in the left rear tire, down to 10 PSI.  I had to make a quick trip to the Post Office to pick up mail this morning and noticed that the ride was a little "loose" at highway speeds, so we must have picked it up over the past few days.  I might have been able to pump it up and we might have been able to nurse it back to Phoenix, but a quick search on Google Maps revealed that there is a tire shop location of the chain we've used lately (Discount Tire/America's Tire) right next door.

I fired up the air compressor, pumped the tire back up and headed out.  They confirmed that the screw was too close to the sidewall to patch, and - surprise - they had a tire of the right size (different brand) in stock.  They got me right in and within 45 minutes, everything was all swapped out and, $33 poorer (I only have to pay to renew the warranty on the new tire) and I was on the way home.  Not bad...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Whew got all tired out reading this and enjoying your travels!