On Our Way South

We left home on Sunday morning to head to Tom's cousins, Rodger & Terry's.  Took a giant load of important stuff to stock up the 5th for our trip south.  We got her all loaded, hooked up and spent the night with Rodger & Terry.  Again our many thanks to them for allowing us to store our 5th with them over the summer and for all the help and advise from the pro 5th wheel guy (Rodger).

We got up Monday morning to an inch of snow on the ground.  But being hardy Canadians we hopped into the truck and headed out anyway.  About two hours down the 401 someone motioned us that we had a problem.  A wheel on the 5th is smoking.  We pulled into Chatham to Longwood's RV Centre.  A huge shout out and thank you to the great people there.  What service!!  They checked her over in the freezing cold and horrible wind.  They advised there was a belt on a couple of tires that were ready to let go.  They had a shop full and were not able to change the tires for us but called around and found someone that could.

The lady (Beth) got in her truck and lead us across Chatham and headed us in the right direction to Cottingham's in Tilbury.  The people at Longwood's would not take a penny for all their time and help. Anyone needing service in that area check them out.  



 Cottingham's got our new tires installed and had us on our way within a couple of hours.  Another great service center.  This seriously put us behind both in time and cash. A strong head wind slowed us down also and really sucked up the diesel fuel.  The border crossing was quick.  They did go into the trailer but only for a minute and sent us packing.  We arrived in Lima, Ohio at about 8 pm and booked into the Holiday Inn for the night.

Tues am we were up early and had a bright and sunny drive all the way to Lenoir City, TN, which is just south of Knoxville.   No snow here but still too cool to sleep in the 5th.  It is the Hampton Inn tonight.  

There was a fair amount of snow most of the way through Kentucky. The highway was wet but not slippery.  Glad we stopped when we did last night by the looks of the snow along the edge of the highway.  They must have received a fair dump over night last night.  Thankfully today it is all melting and we were able to motor on without any problem.

Tired but happy to be more than half way there.  Florida here we come.  You had better be ready!!