Got To PA
We arrived in PA!!!!! We had quite the adventurous trip though! I know everyone was hoping that we would get to PA without any troubles, but that didn't happen!
We started out on Sat. night and only made it to Stockton, CA. I know, why did we leave then!!!! We did the samething on our way to CA 2 yrs ago. But, there was a reason for that, because it turned out to be the last time we saw Pappy alive!!!!! We called out Penske service that morning because our gauge lights didn't work!!!!! Here the breakers were in backwards!
Then Sunday we were truckin, we made it all the way to Needles, CA off of I40!!!! No we didn't stop and see the Giant Sequoias, Tina and I had a bad feeling about it on the way and ended up turning around! We will save that for our trip to CA next year!!!! We would have got into AZ, but we stopped at a rest stop before Needles and the wind was kicking so hard that it pulled the passager door our of MaKayla's hand and wouldn't shut then! So we called Penske service again and they sent out someone to help us!!!! But we had to wait for about 1-2 hrs until they got there and fixed it!
Monday we started off and were ready to truck some more, but about 100 miles into AZ we had our third problem. A trucker honked at me and other cars were driving by looking back I the car I was towing. So I stopped as soon as I could, went back and my driverside rear tire was goone!!!!!! Along with everything to hook another tire on to!!! I will post the pics of the trip as soon as I can get them off the camera. So we called Penske out again and they ended up towing us a trailer and then taking the dolly we had back to Kingman Penske. So that was about a 4 hr delay and that trip wasn't looking too good! So, we decided to stop in Flagstaff and try to make it to see the Grand Canyon to make the day alittle bit brighter! We made it and it was great. We got there at Sunset and stayed until dark. It was great!!!!
Tuesday we were feeling the pressure and decided to not make the detour to see family in El Paso, TX. So we stayed on I40 and made it east of Albuquerque, NM to close Santa Rosa, NM.
And had no problems!!!!
Wednesday we really started moving and made it 537 miles to Shawnee, OK with a 3 hr stop in Amarillo, TX and ate a the Big Texan Steak Ranch http://www.bigtexan.com/ and I had one of the best steak I every had a 16oz. sirloin!!!
Thursday we went 570 miles to about 40-50 miles west of Nashville, TN. and we started to see the end of our trip being Friday!!!!
Friday we again went 550+ to Lexington, VA and ended up stopping there about 5-6 hrs from being home around 10-11pm! We might have made it, but we didn't want to push it to hard!
Saturday we made it home by 3:30pm and unloaded the most of the truck into the storage unit as well!!!! What a trip, we just thank God for making it home ok and that my brother was able to fix the car on Monday for $115! God is good!
