We headed out at 8:00 AM the first morning in our, new to us, home away
from home.
After a trip over to Brett’s parents’ house to fill up the
water tanks, we finally headed out for real at 9:30. We made a dozen potty breaks, stopped for
gas, and then stopped at a rest stop to let the kids play on the playground and
eat lunch. Off we went, until the next
potty break. This is the stop, in the
middle of No Where, Iowa, somewhere between Mason City and Waterloo, at 3:00, that
Brett noticed something was wrong with the tires on the van. He thought it looked like we needed an
alignment. There happened to be a car
dealership across the street.
Unfortunately, after they took a look at things we found out the ball
joints were bad…… Bummer since this is
something Brett normally would have fixed at home for a LOT less money. We were told it would be a six hour job to
fix it. The people at the dealership
were really nice and let us park the camper and spend the night in their lot. The mechanic stayed late and came in early
and amazingly we were on the road again by 10:00 AM the next morning.
Not the way we pictured our vacation starting, but, a night
in a dealership parking lot and over $1000 later we were on our way again
trying to make up for lost time.
The drive through the rest of Iowa was insanely
windy, but it got much better once we got into Missouri. We made it to our campground in Cahokia, IL
(just across the border from St. Louis) in time for the kids to burn off a
little bit of energy on the playground before bed.
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