Oops – In a Pickle and Watch for Road Gators
Well, today’s trip from Navarre, FL to New Orleans, LA was not completely uneventful. With a storm heading towards the I-10 corridor, including New Orleans, I decided to stop along our route today to top off our propane. We stopped at a Pilot. I checked the tanks – one was full and one was empty.
While they were filling the propane tank, I heard a beeping. It was coming from inside the RV. I opened the door and found this…
We’d forgotten to secure the travel latch for the refer door. Oops! Anyway, what a mess. Pickle juice and glass all over the place. So we cleaned up the mess and continued our trip.
About an hour from New Orleans, I encountered a “road gator”! A road gator is the tread of a tire that has come off. It wasn’t mine but I could not avoid it. I ran over it with the truck and the RV. So far, I found one piece of collateral damage. It was to the RV. Under the front of the drop-frame, bolted to it cross-wise “was” a sewer hose tube. Yeah, that’s gone! In it and now gone was my flag pole, wash pole, manual awning hook tool and not sure what else.
So today’s learings:
1. Yes, you do need to lock those refer travel latches
2. Keep your eye as far ahead on the road as you can – maybe you can get past the gators 🙂
Jim be careful. We have to watch out all the time for those Gators. Most of the time they are from retreaded tires. I hit one on the way back from the Tn/Ky rally 2 years ago. Still have the scars on the Rv. travel safe my friend. Enjoy you trip!!
Last year we encountered something larger than a road gator, it was a tail gate from a pick up truck. Thank god I saw that on coming, the big rig in front of me swerved to miss so I followed. That would of hurt.
I hit a king size box spring with the truck that blew off the roof of a car. They explode quite well when hit at 60 mph.
Glad you two are OK, sorry about the stuff going MIA.
sorry to hear jim. as everyone tells me about the weather ” it could of been worse”. hope things go well from here on.