On the road again!!

August 30, 2012

Our last evening in Ithaca was a pleasant one and a great way to end our summer at home.  After  a day of packing up a snow mobile trailer and the back of the car, we had dinner with our friends at their Cayuga Lake house.  We decided to leave the coach in Ithaca this season because next summer we want to go to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland CA.  Why spend a bazillion dollars on fuel to go west and then return east, when we have our Candominium in Tucson.

August 31, 2012

This morning we jammed a few last minute things in our car and headed to Greensburg PA to visit Bruce's mom and sister.  We had a nice time catching up and it was good to see our brother in law who had been quite ill, on the mend and doing well.  I also collected a few more things that might
come in handy at our Candominium in Tucson.

Sept.1, 2012

Today we had the luck of the Irish and we aren't even Irish!!  It did cost us four hundred dollars though.  After leaving Greensburg, we weren't gone thirty minutes and one of the brand new tires on the trailer blew out.  Bruce changed to a spare we had and luckily there was a tire store about six miles away and we were able to get a new tire.  So on the road again we went.  It was getting to be dinner time so we decided we would stop at the next tourist/ rest area to see if we could find a place to stay and have dinner.  The first one came too soon so we continued on to the next one, fiftyfour miles away, in Bristol TN.  It was a good thing we stopped.  When we got out we could smell
something hot.  Bruce checked under the trailer and a spring on the trailer broke and the tire was
wearing a hole in the bed of the trailer and the trailer bed was wearing the tire away.  We decided if
we wanted to sleep at night and get to Georgia we would need to get a Uhaul trailer.  Besides that the trailer was not going to make it in one piece anyway.  We found a Uhaul store four miles away across the state line in Bristol VA. The owner was just closing for the day but came and led us to his store the long way so that the tire wouldn't blow again on the major highway.  Would you believe there was a Uhaul trailer with a picture of San Xavier de Bac Mission which is around the corner from our resort in Tucson!!  It was just waiting for us to bring it home.  The owner of the family owned Uhaul company was so very helpful.  He gave us water and told the story of his father and the shop.  Not to mention helping Bruce and me shove our mattress in the back of the trailer. Two hours later he got to go home and we found a hotel and had some dinner.

Sept.2, 2012

Today was uneventful.  We are in Young Harris, Georgia at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts.  We'll be here for a week.  Bruce is taking a class on advanced glass fusion and I am taking a class in bead crochet and Kumi himo.  It's fun here.  Camp for retired people, but every now and then a young adult takes a class.