Monday arrived early and so did Sharlene to take us for our breakfast. We went to her favourite place - Kiss The Cook on Glendale Ave. W Great traditional American breakfast place, I really enjoyed pancakes and bacon, while Sally enjoyed ham, sausage and bacon. It was a very popular place, with people waiting for a table, but we sat for hours talking with Sharlene, drinking lots of coffee having. had a wonderful time. Sharlene then brought us home, I didn't even bother with lunch, but managed to wash the awning clean in afternoon.
Early this morning I had taken the Chevy for a bit of a fixup. We have been getting a lot of road noise and a bit of wobble when we brake on a steep slope, so wanted to get that sorted. The damage was new brake linings and the discs (rotors as they call them) needed skimming. The road noise is, as I thought, a result of the 'aggressive' tread on our snow tires, though it has been made worse by something called 'cupping', whereby the tire rubber wears unevenly, not across the tire, like the shoulders or centre of the tread, but wears down round the circumference of the tire, like a series of waves, each about 4 inches long, across the width of the tire, this is not dangerous and is probably brought about by the extra load on the back lifting the front slightly and the tires bouncing. The guy suggested a less aggressive tire would probably solve the problem, but they still have another 20,000 miles of wear, so we just have to get used to the road noise.
This is trip 15, in 2015! We arrived in Phoenix (AZ) on March 25th and traveled North and East, taking in Jerome, Mogollon Rim, Zuni (NM), El Morro, Farmington, Durango (CO), Ridgway, Black Canyon NP, Breckenridge and Golden. Moving North from there we have been to Fort Collins, Laramie (WY), Cheyenne, Fort Laramie, Chadron (NE), and on to Custer (SD) to explore The Black Hills, as far North as Devil's Tower (WY). From there we have driven East to Dreadwood,then on to pickup our mail in Box Elder before exploring The Badlands NP. We have been to the capital Pierre (SD Capital), before driving North up the Missouri to Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota. We have finished towing by driving via Fargo and Sauk Centre to Minneapolis, where we will clean and store the rig, ready for us when we return for Trip 16 in the Fall (DV). On this trip we have towed the trailer just over 2800 miles.
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