Sad to say we made it home Thursday night, the end of the trip always sucks.
We did not end up staying in Pismo Wensday as we planed we ended up staying in the Los Padres National forest just south of Pyramid Lake just off of the 5 at a nice Campground, It was nice not to pay the high Calif. State Parks prices to camp.($9.00 with my federal access card)
All along are trip home we stopped & checked out alot of antique stores & other shops, We did not find to many good deals but Jan did find her a few more bear cookie jars for her collection.
While Jan was checking out a fabric shop in Tehachapi Ca. I was flipping a quick U-turn on a side street so I could pick up Jan and the teardrop passenger side rear tire just barely hit a high curb & the trailer must of been 2 or 3 feet off of the ground & when it hit the ground it bent the passenger side of the axle, It did not bend the spindle or the bake mounts or the drum and the rim & the tire also survived.(Also checked the spindle welds)
With the axle bent the tire had about 3/8 of an inch clearance from hitting the side of the trailer so it took a little longer to get back to Vegas.
I'm just glad the roads the rest of the way home we're not as bumpy as 99% of California's roads.
We had no other problems the rest of the way home other then we we're held up in Barstow for awhile due to there was a wreck wright in front of us at the on & off ramp intersection of the freeway by Mc Donalds.
We could of been like all of the other witnesses & just kept on going, But we stayed to let the police know what happened.
So I will be ordering a new axle, I'm going to go to a bigger axle so I will also have to order heavier springs and a bigger set of brakes due to the the brake drums on my trailer will not fit on the bigger axle.
I guess I should of made Jan walk a little further it would have been alot cheaper.
No I should have flipped the u-turn alot slower
We still had great time.
We will see alot of you real soon.
Ken & Jan
P.S. I'll try to get some pic's up in the next day or two.