A quick blog entry tonight because our Internet is spotty tonight …<\/p>\n
We left Lou & Larry’s with some regret today, and lots of apologies for not planning a longer stay. \u00a0 We always seem to whiz through and next time we’ll try to stay longer to explore things in their corner of Ohio. \u00a0 We picked up Brett at Columbus’ airport, because he’ll be traveling with us for the next week (for business reasons), and then towed over to Jackson Center OH, where Airstream is still cranking out new shiny trailers after many decades here in the soybean fields.<\/p>\n
The excitement of the day was incidentally received along I-270 somewhere in Columbus. \u00a0 The Doran 360RV tire pressure monitor starting beeping and showed that the right front trailer tire was suffering a rapid de-inflation. \u00a0 In other words, a flat was imminent. \u00a0 I pulled over to the shoulder immediately because the tire was already at 23 psi and I didn’t think we’d make it to the next exit.<\/p>\n
The quick stop saved the tire. \u00a0 It was very low but still in one piece when we stopped, rather than shredded into lots of expensive rubber parts. \u00a0 The problem turned out to be a bad valve stem. \u00a0 Doran recommends using metal stems, but three of ours are currently rubber. \u00a0 One failed rather abruptly (leaking around the base of the stem), and if we had not had a tire pressure monitor \u00a0 it would have likely come apart and possibly damaged the trailer in the process.<\/p>\n
Brett and I executed a fairly quick tire change right there in the shoulder, which is always disconcerting as cars and trucks rush by at 65 MPH. \u00a0 All went well, and 80 miles later here we are in J.C., with one more item on our service list for tomorrow.<\/p>\n
By tomorrow we should also have the password for Airstream’s free wifi, and I won’t have such difficulty posting the blog. \u00a0 At the moment I am using my Verizon card, which works sort of \u00a0<\/em> in the Terra Port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A quick blog entry tonight because our Internet is spotty tonight … We left Lou & Larry’s with some regret today, and lots of apologies for not planning a longer stay. \u00a0 We always seem to whiz through and next time we’ll try to stay longer to explore things in their corner of Ohio. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}