Friday June 5 After an arduous day of learning, we hit the road again heading to Crater of Diamonds. Now with the tongue of the trailer weighed down we can exceed 45 mph!!! Today goes better but still not perfect. The combo is scary on the interstate and once we get south of Little Rock the semi traffic was crazy. We abandoned the interstate and took in the back roads. Arrived before dark, YAY!! and set up camp. Another long day with moments of panic. Tomorrow fortune awaits 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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