We happily left Pink Mountain RV park and started for Prince George. The scenery was great and all was well in today’s trip until we got to about 80 miles north of Prince George when we had a blowout on the trailer left front driving about 60 MPH. It was on a 3 lane uphill after a long hwy construction stretch where we must have damaged the tire on the rocks and sharp pavement breaks even though we drove slow through it for about an hour. When the tire blew the trailer tracked straight but the tire was torn to shreds. The flying shrapnel did wiped out the electric break wiring on the left side, damaged the plumbing near the outlet, and scarfed up the lower siding on the trailer. No shoulder wide enough to change the tire but luckily there was a gravel road less than a half mile ahead that we could limp to at 5 mph.
Once in there it took an hour and a half to change the tire and install the spare which has a chip out of the sidewall. It took a little effort to back out onto the highway but Betty did a good job of watching traffic for me. We made it into Prince George and stayed at Hartland RV park. Pretty nice RV park on the edge of town with good water and 30A service along with sewer connection. Since it was Saturday night and nothing was really open in Pr. George until Monday we decided to lay over two nights. Monday by noon I found a Toyo tire and had it mounted. There were no General Grabbers (to match what is on the trailer now) to be had. It was late enough Monday before I was able to get the tire put it on the L front and the spare back in its storage location that we decided to stay over a third night and get a good full day on the road Tuesday with the goal of making Hope, BC. DRW
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