Our second week of hurrying quickly across the country we didn't make any particularly interesting stops. However, we did stay at some really nice campgrounds. We wanted to do a very short, photo filled, travel update to show off a couple of places.
Waverly Lake, Illinois was gorgeous. We got into camp fairly early and stayed to hang out for a while the next morning. We even made a morning campfire to cook up a deluxe potato breakfast.
This section had some beautiful scenery but we didn't do anything very exciting as we were driving pretty quickly to make it to DC.
We did have an exciting incident happen with the RV. A few hours after leaving Lane Farm campground, driving through West Virginia we heard a popping sound. Shortly thereafter another, quieter one. At this point the RV became tricky to control. When going around corners it would make another muffled little pop and the steering wheel would shift in such a way that I needed to hold it at a different angle to keep it going straight. Luckily we were close enough to a small town that had a mechanic. We had broken a bolt in the upper control arm on the passenger side. Dave, the mechanic in Harmon, SC, was able to get it stable to the point of driving safely, but we would need to go get it fixed properly and re-aligned. While he was working on it, we noticed something else had gone wrong. Somewhere in our travels that day, we had lost our spare tire!
We got our RV fixed up at SOS repair in Winchester, VA the next day and continue on our way to D.C
We did have an exciting incident happen with the RV. A few hours after leaving Lane Farm campground, driving through West Virginia we heard a popping sound. Shortly thereafter another, quieter one. At this point the RV became tricky to control. When going around corners it would make another muffled little pop and the steering wheel would shift in such a way that I needed to hold it at a different angle to keep it going straight. Luckily we were close enough to a small town that had a mechanic. We had broken a bolt in the upper control arm on the passenger side. Dave, the mechanic in Harmon, SC, was able to get it stable to the point of driving safely, but we would need to go get it fixed properly and re-aligned. While he was working on it, we noticed something else had gone wrong. Somewhere in our travels that day, we had lost our spare tire!
We got our RV fixed up at SOS repair in Winchester, VA the next day and continue on our way to D.C
