questions on I-40 going west from NC to OK
OK I have never been past Knoxville, TN going west on I-40 to Lawton, Oklahoma. My questions are: Once I am past the smokey mountains on I-40 in NC/TN are there more mountains to climb to get to OK?...
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Well the time has arrived this trip, it is 3 days away.
holiday weekend travel I-40 1250 miles.
GOT the days planned and will try to arrive by Monday around 12noon. BUT weather, traffic, etc will determine that more than anything.
I had an interesting past few days.
First we vacationed at the coast for 8 days the weather was iffy, rainy, windy, cloudy, maybe 2 days of good sunshine. We drove home this past Saturday 250 miles give or take, averaged probably 62-63 MPH, mostly 4 lanes road and some interstate driving. GOT to my neighborhood and turned off the main on to my road. we heard this gosh awful noise the windows were down due to nice cooler weather. the wife asked what is that? I am not sure! as we are traveling down my road going maybe 5mph my daughter and SIL are behind us and they call and say the back tire is wobbling.. OH cr*p. I knew it was wheel bearing. slowed down to a crawl, eased it to the road in front of my house by this time I can see in the mirrors the tire is coming off the axle.
Holy batman this aint good. BUT we are out of the one lane of traffic lucky we live on loop and no one except neighbors drive our street. We get the jack out and jack it up and the tire comes off in my hands. I can see the wheel bearing is shot to cr*p. Spent the better part of Sunday looking for parts and then into monday. Got it backed into the driveway last night around 6pm. Great job!!! I had already called a local shop for them to look at it today and check the rest out. JUST in case. In pulling the tire off there was nail on the inside thread. That tire might be Ok but maybe not. So we cleaned everything we were taking out for this trip and moved to into the storage building. DID YOU know you an have a lot of cr*p over the 6 years of camping..
So I had some water in gallon jugs from the camping trip. I placed them on the kitchen counter, and forgot them until i was about half way to the garage this morning let me pullover and get them hoping they had not come off counter top. coming up on a loop road I can turn here and go right around, GUESS What I misjudged the turn and ran my camper through the ditch. IF it wasn't in the floor before it is now! OK we are stopped open the door two gallons of water all over the floor. lucky we have old towels in the linen closet for these things. 3-4 towels and 15 minutes later its all mopped up I am a little POed about my dumb mistake. BUT alas this story doesn't end here. I look back and see my curb side scissor jack bent straight back, CR*P, CR*P... BUT wait I have Steady-Fast stabilizers on my camper, guess what the straight down screw head thin with the giant wing nut is bent as far as the jack is. SO not only did I miss up the jack, I bent the cr*p out of the one thing that I had to weld onto my camper with I guess no way of straightening it up before Friday pm. So now I am beyond POed. I drive on to the repair shop the guy had told me where to back my camper and truck and I did but he wanted it closer to the building so I had to re-park it. NOW this is side street in our town that was a J O B. He comes out and looks and I tell him about nail in tire he can see it. MIGHT need to replace tire now too. plus I have all this bent to cr*p stuff to try and fix tonight...
SO MY adventure begins..
add to this a copy of a piece of an email my daughter got yesterday from her job assignment: "We are in for some tornadic weather this week and possibly this weekend I will forward you some weather related information later in the week so that you can be aware of the weather when you arrive."
As stated before this adventure begins..
Thanks for the vent and please keep me and my wife and youngest child in thoughts and prayers. as we travel these 1250 miles out with the camper, for traveling mercy's and our return trip home without my baby girl. then 10 weeks later do it again to hopefully bring my camper home 5000 miles worth of trips in ten weeks... OH yeah we are in two vehicles.. the tow rig and camper and my daughter has to drive and have her car too.
thanks
randy
ps I hope spell check worked well, rb
holiday weekend travel I-40 1250 miles.
GOT the days planned and will try to arrive by Monday around 12noon. BUT weather, traffic, etc will determine that more than anything.
I had an interesting past few days.
First we vacationed at the coast for 8 days the weather was iffy, rainy, windy, cloudy, maybe 2 days of good sunshine. We drove home this past Saturday 250 miles give or take, averaged probably 62-63 MPH, mostly 4 lanes road and some interstate driving. GOT to my neighborhood and turned off the main on to my road. we heard this gosh awful noise the windows were down due to nice cooler weather. the wife asked what is that? I am not sure! as we are traveling down my road going maybe 5mph my daughter and SIL are behind us and they call and say the back tire is wobbling.. OH cr*p. I knew it was wheel bearing. slowed down to a crawl, eased it to the road in front of my house by this time I can see in the mirrors the tire is coming off the axle.
Holy batman this aint good. BUT we are out of the one lane of traffic lucky we live on loop and no one except neighbors drive our street. We get the jack out and jack it up and the tire comes off in my hands. I can see the wheel bearing is shot to cr*p. Spent the better part of Sunday looking for parts and then into monday. Got it backed into the driveway last night around 6pm. Great job!!! I had already called a local shop for them to look at it today and check the rest out. JUST in case. In pulling the tire off there was nail on the inside thread. That tire might be Ok but maybe not. So we cleaned everything we were taking out for this trip and moved to into the storage building. DID YOU know you an have a lot of cr*p over the 6 years of camping..
So I had some water in gallon jugs from the camping trip. I placed them on the kitchen counter, and forgot them until i was about half way to the garage this morning let me pullover and get them hoping they had not come off counter top. coming up on a loop road I can turn here and go right around, GUESS What I misjudged the turn and ran my camper through the ditch. IF it wasn't in the floor before it is now! OK we are stopped open the door two gallons of water all over the floor. lucky we have old towels in the linen closet for these things. 3-4 towels and 15 minutes later its all mopped up I am a little POed about my dumb mistake. BUT alas this story doesn't end here. I look back and see my curb side scissor jack bent straight back, CR*P, CR*P... BUT wait I have Steady-Fast stabilizers on my camper, guess what the straight down screw head thin with the giant wing nut is bent as far as the jack is. SO not only did I miss up the jack, I bent the cr*p out of the one thing that I had to weld onto my camper with I guess no way of straightening it up before Friday pm. So now I am beyond POed. I drive on to the repair shop the guy had told me where to back my camper and truck and I did but he wanted it closer to the building so I had to re-park it. NOW this is side street in our town that was a J O B. He comes out and looks and I tell him about nail in tire he can see it. MIGHT need to replace tire now too. plus I have all this bent to cr*p stuff to try and fix tonight...
SO MY adventure begins..
add to this a copy of a piece of an email my daughter got yesterday from her job assignment: "We are in for some tornadic weather this week and possibly this weekend I will forward you some weather related information later in the week so that you can be aware of the weather when you arrive."
As stated before this adventure begins..
Thanks for the vent and please keep me and my wife and youngest child in thoughts and prayers. as we travel these 1250 miles out with the camper, for traveling mercy's and our return trip home without my baby girl. then 10 weeks later do it again to hopefully bring my camper home 5000 miles worth of trips in ten weeks... OH yeah we are in two vehicles.. the tow rig and camper and my daughter has to drive and have her car too.
thanks
randy
ps I hope spell check worked well, rb
