Where to begin? Leaving Santa Fe Tuesday morning?  Well, I told everyone I was excited to get to OK City so I wanted to leave around 7am.  I woke up at 7:27am!  So, that didn’t happen!  I guess if I’m planning on leaving earlier than my kids naturally wake up, I better learn how to use an alarm again rather than expecting them to know my plans and think they will wake up according to my wishes!

We got about an 11/2hrs down the road when we decided we should stop and fix our broken windshield wipers.  It was a wet day and the lack of working wipers was going to become a problem.  Cathy and Ryan were following us in the work van pulling the Airstream.  Apparently, when we parked our RV at the gas station, Ryan and Cathy noticed our DAMN DOLLY tire looked crooked!  Oh no, not a flat this time….the wheel axle detached from the wheel.  I don’t know if that is a proper description or not but in Ryan’s words when he came into the RV to tell me about it “Um, your dolly tire is f@ck@d up, I mean REALLY f’ed up.”  GREAT!!  Have I ever expressed how much I HATE this dolly?  We hobbled over across the street to a tire shop.  We had them check our back RV wheels too because the ride felt a little rough.  AND that same tire from the mountains flat coming to Santa Fe from Park City was flat again.  The guy determined it was a bad valve and replaced the valve and we are hoping to not have that problem again.  The dolly was going to cost several hundreds of dollars to fix and we had to wait for parts from Albuquerque.  We opted to leave the piece of junk there for them to have.  Yeah! No more dangerous dolly!  So, Cathy rode ahead of us to Amarillo in our van to hunt down an unavailable part for our wipers.  Ryan drove the work van and us in our now dolly free RV and away we went 2 hours later!  My very kind family hosted Shelley and Sarah at their house (whom they had never met) while we tried to get there before midnight.  We made it at about 10:30 and my aunt still had dinner warming in the oven for us. Man how I love my family!  We were back on the road by 8am the following morning.  Certainly not the visit I was wanting with my family but still happy for the little time I had with them.