Bill was supposed to drive down to Albuquerque on Friday night after he & Jamie got home from their 3-day camping trip. When he called at 8:00pm on Friday night, I knew they weren't going to make it.
On their way to the campground on Wednesday, he ran over a screw and got a flat tire. He changed the tire, using the little donut spare tire. Coming home from the campground on Friday, he ran over a pair of pliers (seriously??) and ruined the donut spare. He was out of cell range and Tony, who had also been on the camping trip, had left in front of him. Bill & Jamie walked to the next campground and talked to a woman camping there who let them borrow her truck to take the first flat tire into Monte Vista for repair. So, when he called me on Friday night, they had just gotten home from their adventure.
Now, the dilemma is...trying to either find a place to buy another tire to fit on the donut rim OR find a place to buy a rim, buy new tires for the Pilot and put one of the old ones on the new rim to use as a spare. And, the trick has been to find one of those options available on a long holiday weekend. So far, we've not had any success. Wal-Mart had nothing and the tire stores in Alamosa were closed on Saturday. Bill drove to Albuquerque on Saturday and got in at 5:30pm, after the tire stores here were closed.
On their way to the campground on Wednesday, he ran over a screw and got a flat tire. He changed the tire, using the little donut spare tire. Coming home from the campground on Friday, he ran over a pair of pliers (seriously??) and ruined the donut spare. He was out of cell range and Tony, who had also been on the camping trip, had left in front of him. Bill & Jamie walked to the next campground and talked to a woman camping there who let them borrow her truck to take the first flat tire into Monte Vista for repair. So, when he called me on Friday night, they had just gotten home from their adventure.
Now, the dilemma is...trying to either find a place to buy another tire to fit on the donut rim OR find a place to buy a rim, buy new tires for the Pilot and put one of the old ones on the new rim to use as a spare. And, the trick has been to find one of those options available on a long holiday weekend. So far, we've not had any success. Wal-Mart had nothing and the tire stores in Alamosa were closed on Saturday. Bill drove to Albuquerque on Saturday and got in at 5:30pm, after the tire stores here were closed.
I don't know what I imagined when Bill told me he had run over a pair of pliers, but this certainly was not the picture in my head! O. M. G!!
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