August 27 Demeaning chores

Despite being camped near Rapid City, one of our favorite places, we had to perform chores today and exploring had to be deferred until later. Peggy did a couple loads of wash in the park laundry. I spent a good part of the day dealing with tire inflation on the truck.s and trailer’s 8 tires in addition to washing out and oiling our replacement air filter before using it to replace the strange OEM Ford filter. There were many dead bugs in the air filter canister so I washed and vacuumed those out. I spent the rest of the afternoon picking out the myriad colorful and crispy flying insects that have been smashed into the multiple radiators in our truck during two passes across the Midwest, home to many gigantic and goo-filled bugs. There was probably about a quart of these vermin. What originally seemed like about 30 minutes work turned into most of the afternoon and we are glad this misery is temporarily over.

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