New Tires on RV

We were up at 7 a.m. and broke camp to head over to Les Schwab Tires here in Ferndale. Wouldn’t you know it would start raining just as we were getting ready to leave.

We arrived at Les Schwab about 8:30 and they were working on 2 trucks and it would be a while before they could get to us. Mike had a tech unload the RV flat tire from inside the Vue. We looked at the flat tire and found that it had a 2½" cut in the sidewall which caused it to go flat. We had just under 55,000 miles on the old tires.

 Since we replaced the flat tire with our new tire we had as a spare, we're only having to buy 5 tires today. We're going to keep one of the old tires to have as a spare.

Mike asked where a good place to eat breakfast was and we were directed to the Hilltop Restaurant near Bellingham. The rain had quit while we were at Les Schwab’s, but we rain into some heavy rain on our way to the Hilltop Restaurant.

Mike ordered pancakes with sausage and a biscuit and gravy. I had the Denver Omelet with bacon and toast and we both had coffee to drink. The folks at Les Schwab were right when they recommended the Hilltop for breakfast.

From Ferndale

It had quit raining by the time we finished breakfast and since we were so close to Bellingham, we decided to go back to Wal-Mart to get a couple of things we forgot when we were there a few days ago.

We also stopped at Petco to buy K9 Advantix for Tinker. It was on sale there for $10 off and I had a $2 coupon because I had completed one of Petco’s surveys from the last time we had shopped there.

We returned to Les Schwab a little after 10:30 and they were finished with mounting the new tires. We had a tech load one of the old RV tires that we're going to use as a spare into the Vue. Our bill for the new tires (Michelin XRV 235/80R X 22.5) and installation came to $2780.

I stopped at Costcutter grocery to pick up a couple of things we needed and Mike headed on back to the campground with the RV.

We set up the RV and discovered that our Energy Management panel is now registering the 50 amp service correctly!

After lunch I washed a couple of loads of clothes and spent the rest of the afternoon organizing our photos. Mike cleaned the new RV tires and put 303 Aerospace Protectant on them.

Tomorrow we leave here and head south to McChord AFB and the Holiday Park FamCamp there. From what we’ve heard there are so many trees in the section of the campground with hook-ups that it isn’t possible to get satellite TV reception. We’re considering staying in the dry camping section where satellite TV reception is possible.