Since hurricane Dorian was on the way towards Florida we wanted to get back to Ormond before we possibly had to leave again, so after a couple of nights in Madison we headed towards Ormond Beach, and home. But our trailer had other plans, as so many times before. However, this time it was not a tire blowing up, that we could just replace, it was a tire that almost caught fire because of the bearings...
It was around 10pm when a driver passing us on the highway, outside Jacksonville, rolled down his window and got our attention. There was smoke coming from one of our tires on the trailer and there were embers in the wheel bearing. We obviously stopped and quickly realized that there was no way we could continue driving. It was very very hard to find someone who could and wanted to tow us but after getting some help from the Highway patrol and begging the tower to come and at least try we finally got help. We had then spent almost six hours on the side of the highway! Luckily the boys slept most of that time but it is surprisingly boring to watch cars go by for so many hours... The tow trucker had to improvise in order to get the trailer up on the tow truck but he made it and after about 30 min we could all go Aunt Jackie's house. We got there around five amp and at 8am a friend of Aunt Jackie came to help us with the trailer, it was a Sunday, and we were so lucky. He had to chisel the wheel off the axle but could put a new one on, and we could eventually, actually, drive back to Ormond!
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| Glow in the dark wheel bearing :-) |
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| Life on the side of the highway |
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| Trying to get the trailer up on the tow truck |
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| He made it!! |
While spending some time at Aunt Jackie's house Rafael got some snuggles with Sammy :-)
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| Back in our own house again!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| The past 3,5 months.... |
