For the first time I had a number of titles to choose from. The one I used, “My Biggest Fear”, “Luck was With Us”, That Could Have been Nasty” were all contenders.
We had breakfast at the motel, the standard make your own waffle was available, followed by yogurt and a liberal helping of cinnamon rolls to sustain us in the truck.
Our first “problem” occurred about a mile from the motel, there was a road junction, not too well signed, and the GPS, route instructions I had downloaded and the map could not agree on the correct way to go. We finished up taking the less than optimum choice. We had this battle a few times during the day, culminating in a near nasty in Mobile. The GPS aimed us at a tunnel under the river, at the last second (literally) I saw a height restriction of 12 ft, we were 12 ft 8 inches!! Luckily I was able to change lanes.
Prior to that we had pulled into to get a mid morning coffee, while Lyn was getting the coffee I did my usual walk around the rig to make sure that the important pieces were still there; they were, but there was an additional piece that shouldn’t have been there. One of the trailer tyres appeared to be in the early stages of pregnancy! There was a bump about half the size of a golf ball on the edge of the tread. I think, since the day we got the trailer, I have always been concerned with a blow out. With the weight the tyres are carrying it is likely if one blows, the other one on the same side will get overloaded and blow as well leading to a possible loss of control of the whole rig. As it turns out we caught it just in time, and managed to change tyres in the parking lot!
Driving into Mobile we were treated to a couple of good thunder-storms ahead of us with amazing lightning. We also got one very heavy downpour which hopefully washed the trailer.
We arrived in Foley Alabama a little later than expected at 4:45. We spend two nights here then head north.