October 21 Leaving Durango in our Dust

We passed Church Rock on our way to Grand Junction

A rather uneventful day. Well, I take that back. When Bill checked the tires he found a problem with a rear tire on the truck so he took it down the street to a tire place and the valve stem was bad, so he had it changed. Then we headed out of Durango for Grand Junction. Rather than take the Million Dollar Highway or one of the other routes that cross the mountains we went the long way around the west through Moab, UT to get here. It was mostly 2 lane road but it was not bad and no traffic per say.

Once we got on the interstate we were tootling along and we both heard metal hit the road. I checked both mirrors and didn’t see anything obvious missing from the sides of our RV. When we got to the campground we discovered what made the noise. It was the other landing leg pad. The pin was still in the leg and it separated at the weld. Luckily we kept the spare from the same incident this summer so we had one to put on. Once we settled in I called our RV company and even though we are out of warranty, since this was the second one to come off while driving, I was rather insistent on the message to call me and I’d let them know where to send the replacement since we’ve already bought one replacement. I’ll have it mailed to Tucson so we can replace it when we get there.

Our campground tonight is Mobile City just off Interstate 70 in Grand Junction, very convenient.  They only have 14 overnight spots as most of their spaces are workers who are contracted here on various jobs.  The managers are very nice people and the spaces are really wide with little fences to separate them.  They have full hook ups, including WIFI and cable.

We’ve been following the weather at our next stop, Kremmling, CO where we are visiting old friends of mine. The next week isn’t looking so good. Some snow, nights down into the high teens. We called and forced ourselves on their hospitality to stay with them and leave the RV here in Grand Junction. They said no problem but now we need to make the arrangements with the place here and cancel our Kremmling reservations.

Kam called with all the mail questions tonight so time to pay some bills.