From Pathfinder Village, we went south 233 miles to get on Interstate 90. We will be taking I-90 all the way to Washington. We stopped at the city park at the Faribault County Fairgrounds in Blue Earth, MN.
We just stayed one night here and visited the Jolly Green Giant and museum here like we did over 9 years ago.
As we got ready to head out the next morning, our TPMS indicated a low tire on our RV. It showed 48 psi. Upon closer examination, I discovered some nasty wear on the inside of the rear tire.
It was pretty bad. We were lucky it didn't blow. I replaced it with our spare.
Then we were off towards Rapid City, SD, 487 miles away. I did stop after 100 miles or so and checked for wear and to retorque the wheel. We had only 13,381 miles on the tire. Maybe a bent axle? I also pulled into a CAT scale and got weighed. Our truck was 4,580 front axle, 6,300 rear axle, and we have 7,680 pounds on the RV axles. That is really good. Our RV unloaded weight is 6,588 lbs. and with a payload capacity of 3,104, we were underweight by 2,012 pounds.
After a long drive and into South Dakota,
As we passed through Mitchell, we had to at least drive by the famous Corn Palace.
Then on to Rapid City, we checked into the Elks Club there at the golf course.
I had planned on buying a new tire since we now had no spare. Then I noticed another tire that was wearing bad. The other side front axle.
Definitely an alignment problem. I bought a Goodyear Endurance tire and now all my tires look good, and we have a badly worn tire (that holds air) for a spare. We will figure it all out when we get back to WA.
We did do some exploring in Rapid City. We walked around town
and had lunch at the Firehouse Brewpub.
We stayed in Rapid City 3 nights. Besides fixing our tire issues, I was able to change out our truck fuel filter. Then we were off, through Wyoming.
which looked like this the entire way. We did see lots of wild horses in Wyoming.
Then into Montana.
We stopped at a Cracker Barrel in Billings, MT
and another one in Missoula.
I also stopped several times to retorque lugnuts and make sure the tires weren't shredding.
Into Idaho.
Then one last stop at the Elks in Coeur d'Alene, ID.
And we were back in Washington state. We are camped at our old stomping grounds, Crescent Bar Thousand Trails.
It is good to be 'home' again and will be stopped for a while.
Stay tuned for a re-cap of the entire trip around the states.
The Fergs out .......
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