A little bump in the road going north

A cool 69º here in Livingston, TX aat 10:00 pm Monday night.

Things haven't gone as planned.  After driving in thick fog for most of two hours we had a wheel bearing go out on the trailer about 10:30 this morning, only 80 miles into the 480 miles planned to drive .

today.  Had some problems getting lined up with a repair guy and he finally got to us about 2:30 pm.  After removing the hub with bearings, etc., (which didn't come off easy) he drove back to his town of Livingston (we were about 6 miles north of here at the time) and discovered some of the parts had to be ordered in and won't arrive until sometime tomorrow morning.

So, we cancelled our reservation 400 miles up the road and grabbed a site here.  Would be 644 miles now from here to Cape Girardeau and we don't think repairs can be made until mid-morning to noon.  We were going to visit with Don & Vicki tomorrow afternoon, but this would be more than a 14 hour drive which is way more than I want to drive in one day pulling the trailer and we wouldn't get there until sometime during the day Wednesday.  Due to our needing to leave Cape Girardeau on Thursday for Clarinda for the funeral on Friday for Phyllis' cousin Judy, this would be a very short visit.  So we called Vicki and explained it to her and told her we would be down to see them in May before Decoration Day.  (She had planned on our driving over to the Illinois site of their cemetary to put out flowers- so will do that for her then).

Depending on how early we get out of here tomorrow, we should get to our Clarinda home Wednesday, or Thursday at the latest.  Is about 800 miles to Clarinda from here.  We don't like to drive over 350 miles in a day pulling the trailer, but have made exceptions and may have to now.

LCM