Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 79 Saturday, May 19, 2007

Council Bluffs, Iowa to Platte City, Missouri -156 Miles

Wow, what an exciting day today.  We had intended to drive a bit over 250 miles and stay at a campground somewhere east of Kansas City, Mo; however, about 80 miles south of Council Bluffs we experienced our first BLOWOUT!  As I was driving down I-29 I came down a hill and at the bottom of the dip the left rear inside dual tire blew!!!!!  I was able to maintain control pulling to the side of the road at the top of the hill.  I called our friendly road service and then we proceeded to wait for the next 2 hours for them to arrive to change our tire!  Sylvia and I just got our camping chairs out and our artificial carpet out and set them up in the grass and watch the cars and trucks roll by. 

A good samaritan stopped to see if we were OK and if they could help.  Johnny and his 2–year old son Cash hung out with us and kept us company as we waited for the service to arrive.

The Service did finally get a truck out and the nice fellow changed out our tire.   You might recall that early on in our trip we had a flat tire with we had apparently run over a nail.  This was quite different and very dangerous with the tire just blowing out.  It did do a little damage to the wheel well but nothing that will keep us from moving on down the road; we repair this minor damage once we complete our trip.

You can see in the photo above the big hole in the tire the blew!

After the repair/tire change we drove on to find the nearest campground to camp for the night and decompress after this stressful incident! 

Oh, tomorrow’s another day in our adventure.

posted by Richard @ 11:19 PM