The highway between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas is not that
exciting. This is an area of high
mountain desert, scrub brush, cactus, rolling hills, and mountains. Temperatures can get very high; we have seen
42 degrees on our truck’s temperature gauge.
This makes for very hot road surfaces, lots of flat tires, and debris on
the road. Whether from the heat, debris,
or just fate, we blew a tire on the trailer about 50 km north of Vegas. After our previous tire blow out experiences,
David was prepared for this!! When we
blew our first tire in Virginia, we called CAA to help us out. Now we rolled into action as a team!!
Luckily, we were very
close to a highway exit so we were a little safer than the side of the
Interstate. Unluckily, we were dealing
with 41 degree heat in the desert at the side of a road. We raised the trailer up using the same
blocks we use for levelling in campgrounds, mind you, I’ve never had to raise
it up quite so high! Sean provided the
muscle to get the lug nuts off while David got the spare. Rianna was the official videographer and water
supplier. We were only working for about
half an hour, but I must admit that by the time I was done my part I was
feeling light headed and nauseous. The
state trooper came by, just to make sure we were ok, so that was reassuring.
We were all very hot by the time we were done, and a little
nervous for the rest of the drive into Vegas.
The tire had shredded quite badly, so we were a little worried about
damage to the other tires or the undercarriage on the trailer. We managed to
get into town, with no further problems, but it was a big relief to unhitch and
walk into the hotel!! We were VERY glad
that we had decided to stay in the hotel part of Circus Circus, and not the
campground!! It also happened to be 5
minutes away from the tire dealership where we had to take it to get a brand
new set of 5 tires!!
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