Tuesday - October 8

Whew....what a day!    We left in fog at 8 AM only to be a short ways out of the campground when the tire pressure sensor went off again....arghhhh!    What the heck?    We drove a short distance to a truck stop and were told they only work on semi's - not RV's and we should go across the street where they do RV's.    so off we went and of course...."No, we have no tech available so we can't help you"!    They told us there were 2 tire places about 3 miles down the road, but we could not drive there as the tire was going down quickly.

We parked in a spot with all the semi's and I asked permission to do so and explained the situation - we would be leaving our Airstream and taking the TWO tires (yesterday's and todays) to be checked out and then come back.    2 girls said that was fine.    Off we went to Tire Discount and after waiting probably 45 minutes, they checked the tires, said both had the valve stem leaking, fixed, and no idea why this happened.   The service guy thought maybe corrosion, but Mark wasn't buying that as Flo is not even 18 months old.   Possibly someone finagling with the valve stem and loosening?   We'll probably never know but really strange that 2 tires in a 2-day period had this problem (both on the same side.)

So, 3 hours later, we were on our way (11:00) and had some rain thru the mountains of NC.    Ryan met us at Michael's where we parked Flo for the next week and so appreciated his help settling in.

Off to Annette's with the kiddos - Philip is working in Florida all week.   We had a wonderful "comfort-food" meal of sweet 'n sour meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole.    Also she made orange crushes (a favorite of mine - with fresh-squeezed valencia oranges, vodka and cointreau).  Delicious!!!

Pat and Annette with their delicious orange crushes!

Good visiting with Annette and Ryan, hugs and kisses for Luke and Maeve and then back to Flo...

   They had over an inch of rain here at the lake today.   We were lucky cause for the most part, sunny skies for traveling.    There was a ban on campground fires when we arrived at Whispering Hills last night.    The sign should've been taken down cause the night before we got there, they had 4" - no more drought!

Been a long day - nighty night!