On the road breakdown stories..

Mine seem to involve leaf springs. I had a Chalet A-frame and was killing a few days until the Chalet Rally near Bryce Canyon. I drove the 55 miles of bad washboard to the north rim of the Grand Canyon to a place called Toroweap or Tuweep. I was a couple miles away when I saw a bad dip that was partially filled in with talc dust. I heard a load clunk when my camper hit it and noticed it sitting funny. It only had minor damage to the wheel well but the leaf spring was snapped. The remote ranger residence was maybe two miles away and he was there. I used a block of wood to tow it to the house in case I could fix it. The ranger got on the sat phone and called Tony's in Fredonia AZ. He warned me the haul out was expensive but I didn't want to spend my vacation dealing with a broke camper in the middle of nowhere. So two hours later the flatbed shows up. They overnight a spring in the next day and only had to spend one night in a motel. A few years later and bigger camper with two axles...I pulled off for the night at Meteor Crater RV park only to notice BOTH rear leaf springs snapped in the same spot. UGG not this again. I had them replaced in Flagstaff as once again limited on time and I didn't have any air tools to deal with the rusty fasteners.