We awoke to pretty chilly temperatures from last night which we spent in the trailer and Peg’s siblings spent in a local hotel. They popped in this morning and I cooked up a big ham, cheese and bacon scramble for breakfast. Nobody complained, at least where I could hear them. There was some family chatting for a while before John and Kathy left to cross the Cascades and on to their homes near Eugene and Coos Bay.
John is an equipment operator and truck driver at the family rock quarry operation and that is very fortunate because his sharp eye picked up a defective tire on the Barbarian Invader while he was outside having a smoke. After his departure, Peggy and I hopped into Charlotte and drove south to the town of La Pine where there is a Les Schwab Tires outlet and I investigated options for losing the funky tire on the trailer. In a very short time I was on the way back north with a quite reasonable price to replace all the trailer tires since I bought them all together and if one is gunnybag I worry about the rest. Fifth wheel trailers are built with light materials and explosive tire failures frequently involve destruction of the adjacent flimsy trailer components making repairs cost as much as 10 times the cost of a new set of tires. I have an appointment in La Pine to get tires Monday.
Having already spent too much of the day to embark on any big expeditions, we went to the Bend Trader Joe’s and stocked up on all of our favorite food since soon we will be going east where the are no Costcos, Trader Joe’s or, sometimes, people. The cart was pretty full before we reached the checkout counter. After tire replacement on Monday, we will hit the Costco and our ample stockpiles will be complete.