so yeah this is not a view that anybody wants to see
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yeah you guys are carrying backpacks might wanna just throw your packs over here
high stakes of limbo right you're good you're good
Jack go under limbo stick wow that cactus is a little bit crooked so they
grow their arms to balance themselves out so if the middle part is starting to
lean they've grown arm and that helps them well mm-hmm
this is a really cool place we are down here hiking next to the Salt River in
Arizona and couldn't ask for a more beautiful day the river is super
peaceful we came out to see if we'd have any luck seeing any of the wild horses
that tend to frequent this area and so far no luck but it's still early in the
day and so we're just kind of hitting this trail and I'll see
what we could find
so the Salt River here in Arizona is actually the largest tributary of the
Gila River in the Salt River itself is over 200 miles long so no wild horses
yet but plenty of little lizards crossing paths which is a little bit
heart-stopping after the whole incident with the snakes few days ago on the hiking
trail be right over there so keeping an eye out but just keep it on this trail
which is just absolutely beautiful
so they call them jumping because
these little parts fall off so easily
Over there do you see the hole
a couple of different spots where there's a hole in there so there's only one type of animal
that pecks a hole into a Saguaro do you want to guess what it is
woodpecker yes it's a woodpecker but the woodpecker only uses the nest
one time and then something else comes and use the nest
you wanna guess
it is a flying animal or do one more guess eagle close it's um usually a nighttime flying animal
Owl
so there's a certain type of owl that goes into the woodpecker holes and makes a
den in there a little nest in there and it lives in there for the rest of its
life whoops you see wow that's gonna leave a mark
you always say that daddy I know that's just my go-to phrase
so they call these jumping chowers because
then the middle part is the fruit and so what kind of happen you guys can either
finally saw one did you ladies have fun it's a really good hike yeah so
I was looking at my Apple watch there's just a little over three ish miles
there's a little bit rough in some places but overall it was really good
beautiful weather not very many people gorgeous day you couldn't have asked for
a better day to be out on this trail here where are we fond something yeah I
so outside of the Phoenix proper area and it's just
gorgeous so definitely a fun place to come and get a hike in in gorgeous
weather right now because it's spring so not too hot not too cold perfect
temperature to be out and not feel like exhausted early on or anything like that
alrighty good I'm gonna cut into this cactus for you okay your piece I'll cut the
there's the fruit
and I cut the middle out you getting folks did I do a good job
and I never thought I'd be eating cactus
yes trip like like guinea pigs which I'm gonna do it honey dew
its slippery you don't like it
i'll take the other piece I'll take it
honestly I'll take the piece
do you like it oh yeah love it a little bit not a lot yeah you can as you really like
just soaks in my mouth that's good I like your wet I like it wet yeah
oh my gosh it's like crunchy is found under my shirt saw we're just
found under my shirt that's pretty cool ro but I like it
cheeri called a local shop and so they're going to be coming down and go
ahead and replace the belt so wish this luck so you know if this had to happen
it's just totally just you know provision from above because we're that
it overheated we were literally only maybe about 20 feet from an off-ramp so
we're able to just get off the interstate and we're not stuck on the
same route and as I'm tearing apart just the back of the closet so the mechanic
that's on it their way can access the engine in the back of my head I remember
thinking that when we bought this from the owners that we bought it from that
there was a belt give me belt so start going through the
compartments and sure enough here is a Freightliner
belt so this is obviously the belt for this so we're just waiting on the mobile
guy to show up fingers crossed that it was just a belt
not a bad tensioner pulley and he can just get this on for us and that will be
back in business and going back down the road so still
waiting here on the side of the road
if it had to happen this could not have happened more smoothly for a hiccup to
happen then the fact that we have a belt we're not on the side of the interstate
we're off the interstate off on an off-ramp very safe place yeah so we're
gonna take a picture of this part number to make sure that once that we do come
to the next town we're gonna you know order another Freightliner belts or stop
by the local freight Lenoir store to pick up another one of these belts to
have a spare on hand so one tip probably to take away is to have an extra drive
belt with you if you have a Motorhome or even if like if you're just driving a
truck you know that you're towing your camper with it's always a good idea to
have an extra belt with you even if you don't have the mechanical ability to put
it on like we don't but somebody will and the fact that we have the part it's
a Saturday the guy with the repair shop already talking all the freight liner
stores are closed so he can't get about today in prease god we've got one right
here so hopefully when the guy comes it's just a quick fix
and then I could put the bedroom back together and we can get back on the road
so we'll keep posted here so it looks like we are not going to be able to fix
it because it sounds like it's an issue it's like could be tensioner the whole
assembly it's got some bearings in it so they're gonna have to tow it so we're
going to drop the Jeep here and get get it ready to be towed into probably
Tucson the nearest town from here until Monday because well today's Saturday and
Freightliner where they need to get the parts aren't
open until Monday so we're gonna have to find some some stuff to do around here
so yeah this is not a view that anybody wants to see in town it would be our
army on a tow truck so now we're getting towed was not a
quick fix
something that they're gonna need to get apart for of course it's the weekends so
everything's closed but here's the good news this company is going to be super
nice and let us boondock in their parking lot
so we will be boondocking therefore tonight tomorrow night until that Monday
comes around and they can get the part and hopefully we're gonna really keep
our fingers crossed but then you can get the part on Monday we get back on the
road on Monday and then we don't have any delays with parts availability so
but we are right outside of Tucson right now which Tucson is a pretty big city so
good news there especially with Tucson and then Phoenix not being too much
further away from there is that we are in a major kind of Metro type areas to
where parts availability hopefully is not too much of an issue especially
since this particular area of the country would have way more motorhomes
running around then like our home base in Colorado
where there's not as many class a motor homes in Colorado so
the good news is as chances of having the parts available in this area we
definitely be better than if we were in our face or near our home base or even
somewhere like out in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota or you know
something like that where it's just none as major of a metro area so we shall
keep our fingers crossed and prayers going that the parts are readily
available and that we get those put on Monday our ultimate destination that
we're wanting to go it's only another about three hours from here so if they
can get the repair made on Monday and still have it you know done by like
three four o'clock in the afternoon on Monday we could still get Tyrell to the
destination and then we're only behind just a couple of days from what we were
planning on being so we're gonna hope that that's the case and stays Hiram's
oh my god so it looks like it was the whole fan
hub assembly that is busted off the whole engine block so we need to get
that whole thing replaced and so you sure you
so you can see right here is the fan that attaches to the engine and it's
completely broken off of there it's gone all the bearings and everything broke
out of it the whole thing's gonna have to be replaced
we called the shop locally here in the area and it looks like they have just
one of the parts and the rest the parts are in California so that's gonna take
another day before we can actually get the parts that we needed to get on the
road again so we are just going to wait here until the tech gets here and then
just make sure that we need all the parts so I've never been a happier
camper in my life and I haven't learned about now so we're about ready to get on
the road after three days of mooch talking at big Dave's in Benson Arizona
Big Dave was very nice and let us have 30 amp power because they had a 30 amp
and I know the limits now of our family in what were able to do with boondocking
and remove shocking because we broke down on a Saturday is now a Tuesday and
our water is a quarter taint for fresh we're at three
quarters on gray and after we hit three quarters on gray I started taking the
dishwater in a dishpan and putting it down the toilet to go into the black
because the black was at half so I figured that out probably a little too
late but I haven't had a shower in four days
Capri leaves a shower the laundry is piling up because we've got our own
washer and dryer I didn't want to go hit a laundromat so I know the limits now
what we can do with boondocking Endor moon tracking so I'm glad to be on the
road again glad so we can get to a campground where we've got all full
hookups um this whole boondocking mooch docking whatever it's too much like
camping for me and want my bowl look up so we're finally on our way another
three ish hours before we gets where we're going and I could not be a happier
camp here at this point and these guys actually took really good care of us
they were so kind so nice so helpful even helped us with a little wiring
problem we had on the motor home to the Jeep where one of the turn signals
wasn't working so um you find yourself in this area they were super helpful and
got us towed everything they were very very helpful so we'll be leaving them a
very nice review on Google and Yelp because it looks like they could use
some better reviews so we'll be doing that for them really appreciate all
their help and now it is time to get the heck out of this little town and get
down the road