Yesterday was an interesting day and much was learned. We started the day out only able to travel 45 miles an hour. The trailer would get all squirley if we went over that speed. We finally decided to stop at a Lowe's and buy several hundred pounds of rocks in bags to put on the tongue of the camper. It helped quite a bit and we were able to do 55 miles an hour. Later on we added more rock and we were able to do 65 miles per hour. Good news is these rocks won't go to waste I'm going to make a rock garden when I get home. Let's hope tomorrow brings a better day for travel. We traveled almost 11 hours and barely made it out of Kentucky. But that's okay, we were together and Nikki was with us.
Thursday June 4 CRAP! Best way of describing our first day, a long day. We did a shake down ride a week or so prior to this trip and knew things weren't perfect with the truck/trailer combo. We had problems with the handling of the trailer at speeds over 60 mph but thought it was manageable at a lower speed. Well on our shake down ride we had loaded the motorcycles and the generator, but once fully loaded things got worse. Stopped at a Lowes and bought 6 bags of gravel to help distribute the weight better, it was an improvement, but not great. After 8 hours we bought 4 more bags and that was a major improvement. Stayed at Bootheel camp ground in Missouri, the reviews said peaceful and quite. Not sure where that reviewer lives but we are a couple hundred yards from an interstate hwy, maybe the constant sounds of semis through the night was their idea of peaceful white noise. Diamond bound in the morning! Stephanie plans on finding one bigger than the Hope Diamond.
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