ANOTHER FREAKING BUMP IN THE ROAD!

Our first night in Wyoming we stayed in Sheridan which was about half way to Yellowstone. We woke up pretty early the following morning so we could get to Cody and check out the city before going into Yellowstone. We were about two hours from Cody when we decided to make a pit stop at a rest stop and switch driving. I hopped behind the driver’s seat and started driving towards Cody, we were only about 5 minutes from the rest stop when I noticed the trailer bouncing all over the place, we knew something was wrong. We pulled over at a truck stop and the other trailer tire was smoking! Joe immediately knew that the bearings on the other trailer tire were busted. Luckily when the first tire bearings blew out Joe watched the mechanic very closely and he felt that we would be able to fix this side on our own. We figured out where the auto parts store was and Joe went and got all the things we needed to try and fix it. As Joe was taking the tire off and the parts off a Truck Driver that had parked next to us came over to check out what we were up to. He ended up hanging around for a while “supervising” and putting in his two cents. It took us (yes I actually helped a little bit) 6 hours to get things almost fixed, by then we had lost all light and decided anything else that needed to be done we could get done in the morning. In the morning Joe double checked everything and we crossed our fingers and got back on the road. For those of you that do not know anything about bearings (like I did) let me give you a little run down… when you take the tire off there is a hub that you have to take off and there are bearings inside of the thing that holds the hub on (you can tell that I do not know all the technical jargon!) so these bearings need to be lubed up all the time with grease, otherwise there is too much friction which can cause a fire (hence the trailer tire catching on fire…).