After a quick breakfast, we left Asheville and headed west into Tennessee. Early afternoon rain showers gave way to sunshine and we had a nice drive -- but it was a long day. 500 miles today.
We arrived at the Benton KOA at 7:00 pm. It's a much nicer place than where we stayed last night, but our site is right beside the southbound lanes of I-57 (like, 50 yards away). So there's some road noise. But not too bad.
Today's adventure was a flat tire on the tow dolly. About a half hour before arriving at the campground, Andra noticed that one of the tires appeared to be low on air. After I hooked up the power, water, and sewer to the rig, I looked at the tow dolly tire and sure enough it was going flat. Ten minutes later it was almost totally flat. Dammit! Not what I wanted to deal with at the end of a long day! But thankfully there's a spare tire mounted on the tow dolly.
It takes me and Andra working together about an hour to change it. It's not as easy as it might sound... first we had to unhook my mom's car that we're towing. Then unhook the tow dolly from the RV hitch. Then we change the flat ... then put it all back together again. Unlike Humpty Dumpty, however, this one had a happy ending. We will get the spare fixed when we arrive at Colorado Springs, where we will be staying 3 days.
Tomorrow's a monster driving day. Longest day planned for the whole trip... 644 miles. We're heading to WaKeeney, Kansas. And it's gonna be hot... the high is supposed to be 105 there. Woohoo!
Here's a picture of that infernal tow dolly the morning after we changed the flat.
