Captain’ s Blog August 25, 2011 (Day 111) Flying J–Brooksville, PA.

Despite being at a very comfortable CG last night we didn’t sleep all that well. Although we didn’t experience a tornado (thank-you God) we kept awake most of the night by torrential downpours and horrendous thunder and lightening.

The good news – the humidity was gone and there was a really cool breeze blowing.

Ron fooled around with the jacks – once again. No luck – again.!!! He also noticed that the rear tail lights on the Jeep were not working. HMMMMM – they were working before. Yet another problem. We tested the brakes directional and hazard lights – all ok. Since we would be driving during the day we let it go.

Before leaving we sat outside for a few minutes and noticed some very large bees.  VERY LARGE BEES! The bees were over one inch long and had their nests in the ground.

Luckily they weren’t biting so we packed up and left.

We ran into a lot of traffic but there was no construction going on so we managed to travel around three hundred miles. Unfortunately, since it was wall to wall traffic we were unable to avoid a large piece of rubber from a blown tire in the road. There was nowhere to go with trucks on both sides of us.

When we stopped for a break Ron was very upset to see some damage to the back side compartment on the MH and the right front bumper of the Jeep. That dam black cloud just won’t go away.

Later that evening we stopped at a the Flying J. After eating dinner at Denny’s we decided that since it was really nice and cool we would spend the night.

Ron took a look at the electrical hook-up from the MH to the Jeep. Once again, he found that it had not been connected correctly and one of the pins was depressed. He fixed that and we had our tail lights working again. Good news, since we  were driving into the belly of the hurricane beast.

We will definitely be getting the Jeep and its weld job checked out when we get home. 

Another day of the Tremblay’s black cloud saga. I told Ron , it could be worse and everything that has happened can be fixed. We still had almost 500 miles to drive so needed some rest and no more bad news.