Upon leaving the site, we discovered that one of our new leaf springs had become misaligned, so the top leaf spring fell past the lower leaves. We limped to a home depot parking lot where I unloaded the spring and hammered the leaves back into position:
We overnighted at a nearby truck stop. See the alternating yellow line on the trip map for today’s drive.
In the visitor center, this display listed the lands conserved by Roosevelt:
We went to an overlook for the Park’s badlands:
We continued east. Approaching Bismarck, I felt an odd shuddering in the steering wheel. We pulled off the interstate into a gravel parking lot and discovered most of the lug nuts on the front passenger wheel had broken off:
I had M check the lugs on the other wheels:
The remaining lugs sheared off when I tried to unscrew the lug nuts:
Broken pieces:
I removed the brake caliper and brake disc:
I was then able to remove the brake pad holder and pound out the broken studs:
Not a bad spot to be stuck:
We took down one of the motorcycles so I can drive into Bismarck tomorrow to buy replacement studs:
I’ll be taking this frontage road to get to Bismarck:
See the alternating yellow line on the trip map for today’s drive.
We woke up to a beautiful sunrise at Paramotor City:
I tried flying, but the wind kept shifting directions which foiled my launch attempts:
In the afternoon we relocated to the Chabad of Albuquerque:
I drove over to a building shared by a tire shop and a radiator shop, which was convenient as I upgraded our other two RV tires and our spare, one of which failed yesterday, to 14-ply tires so they now match the other two we upgraded a few days ago. While that was being done, the radiator shop replaced a leaking coolant hose on the truck that’s been causing us trouble for the past few days:
Back at the RV, Trish and the kids got ready for Shabbos: