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With all the business this week I forgot to mention the results of our service appointment at Airstream. \u00a0 They aligned the axles, replaced a few broken parts under warranty, re-packed the wheel bearings, verified that the disc brake pads are still good, and tweaked a few other things. \u00a0 Overall the Airstream has a clean bill of health and should be good to go for quite a long time before it needs service again.<\/p>\n

This morning we hitched up and moved out again, away from the “Mother Ship” Airstream factory and on the road west. \u00a0 As we were prepping the trailer, we noticed the folks from the previous night who had locked themselves out of their trailer. \u00a0 Someone had decided to give them a “trailer dumping seminar” at the Airstream dump station.<\/p>\n

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I have never considered giving a seminar on dumping holding tanks, but from the rapt attention of these folks, it seems like I’d have an eager audience. \u00a0 \u00a0 We ran into the new owners again a few hours later, at a gas station in Illinois. \u00a0 They were on their way home to California. \u00a0 So I gave them a quick summary of overnight parking procedure at Wal-Mart, Cracker Barrel, etc. to which they reacted politely (but I could tell they were thinking, “Never in a million years.”)<\/p>\n

Little stops like that are all we are going to get today and tomorrow. \u00a0 We are moving faster than usual in order to get a few stops completed, and up to Montana, before the weather starts getting too cold and stormy in the mountains up north. \u00a0 This means we have to make tough choices and skip some places where we would otherwise have stopped. \u00a0 Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas will all get passed over for the most part, so that we can spend time in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Alberta.<\/p>\n

Covering 1200 miles in four days is do-able, even for us with a kid in the car. \u00a0 I just hate the sensation of covering miles without seeing much. \u00a0 On the other hand, I’m alone in the truck and it’s a chance to really think about things. \u00a0 If I want to talk to Eleanor and Emma I have the walkie-talkie, and if I want distraction I have the iPod.<\/p>\n

I have come to measure distances in songs rather than miles, during these long drives. \u00a0 Perry GA to Vermont was 353 songs. \u00a0 From Vermont to here (St Charles MO), I’ve listened to only 186 songs (I’ve been thinking a lot). \u00a0 The iPod has 1,542 songs so I should be good all the way to the west coast, which we will reach sometime in October. \u00a0 By then we’ll have dropped off the Fit for temporary storage and I’ll have E&E back in the truck, so I may not get much further down the playlist. \u00a0 When we’re all together it’s hard to listen to music everyone likes.<\/p>\n

The new blog is pretty much set up now. \u00a0 Let me know if you encounter any problems with it. \u00a0 Once I’m comfortable with it I’ll try to add some nice features for viewing photos, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the business this week I forgot to mention the results of our service appointment at Airstream. \u00a0 They aligned the axles, replaced a few broken parts under warranty, re-packed the wheel bearings, verified that the disc brake pads are still good, and tweaked a few other things. \u00a0 Overall the Airstream has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}