Colorado May 2012 - Day 1

Ok - ok - I know I never finished the Spring Training Trip BUT I'm up for trying agin! Thus far this trip has not gone smoothly - hopefully things will improve. Last night when I hooked up the jeep and put in the add-a-brake, it still DID NOT WORK!! I was not too happy. So this morning when we left we went to Camping World - which opens at 8 - to see if they could get the thing to work. No help at all. Then we went down to McClains - which really doesn't have service on Saturday. But they worked on it from 8:45 until 10! And they got the tings working. Well, kind of anyhow. It will press the brake in the Jeep - it just doesn't release it as quickly as it should! So I am being very judicious in my braking BUT at least the car will not push me down Raton Pass! So then - we are tooling along just fine - headed to Clayton, NM when just north of Childress Scherry had a flat!! Took AAA about an hour to get there and then at least 45 minutes to change the tire. So with my themometer registering 118!! we spent 2 hours on the side of the highway. Needless to say - we did not get to Clayton. We are in Amarillo where we will spend 2 nights so that Scherry can get a new tire Monday morning! Think - after today's warning I will buy tires too on Monday morning. I have been pushing my luck on these tires! So - arrival in Estes Park has been delayed a day! The nice thing about the dry air in the Panhandle is that after ths sun goes down it cools off pretty quickly - down to 82 now at 8:45. Oh - and i forgot to say that poor Breckers threw up - thanks for all those cookies he ate last night, Helen!