It might seem like
bad luck when someone drives up next to you as you are driving down the four lane highway and points and yells for you to pull over. "Gary, I think you need to stop, there must be something wrong with one of the trailers" Gary gets out to look....the car changes lanes, pulls over and comes back to talk to us. In the mean time Gary comes back to the truck with a strange look on his face and says "It's gone, The ATV trailer is gone" all that is left of the trailer is the tongue and hitch and tool box, we've been dragging them down the highway. The people in the car said the trailer came off about a mile down the road, they also said it came to a stop off the road, that was
good luck. So we unhitched the tongue and dragged it further off the road, we turned the truck and 5th wheel around
good luck we are on a 4 lane highway. When we got to the atv trailer it was
good luck that there was a place wide enough so we were able to pull off. It was
good luck that the police officer was already there with the lights blinking warning the on coming cars. It was
good luck we had the problem in the small town of Helper Utah. Because everyone was very helpful and kind. The police officer called the tow truck, and couple of guys found the tongue and hitch and picked it up and brought it back to us---how
lucky is that. We were
lucky to have such a great tow truck driver, he called around and found a place to take the trailer, found someone to weld it back together the next day. We asked him where a RV park was, he didn't just tell us, we followed him to the park. The next day the welder said that the trailer couldn't just be welded back together, it wouldn't be safe. He said it could be fixed,but it would cost a lot more and would take more time. The owner of the repair shop said we could leave the trailer in his back lot, until we came back for it. Gary bought another trailer. (see picture above) and we headed to Moab. See we are pretty
lucky................ we feel very
lucky that no one was hurt or killed when the trailer broke off. No, we are not
lucky, we are blessed.
So far the best part of the trip was seeing these wind machines up close, they were right next to the road in Spanish Forks UT. They are huge. We don't have them in our area of Idaho, the ones we do have are many miles away and up on a bluff.
It might seem like bad luck when someone drives up next to you as you are driving down the four lane highway and points and yells for you to pull over. "Gary, I think you need to stop, there must be something wrong with one of the trailers" Gary gets out to look....the car changes lanes, pulls over and comes back to talk to us. In the mean time Gary comes back to the truck with a strange look on his face and says "It's gone, The ATV trailer is gone" all that is left of the trailer is the tongue and hitch and tool box, we've been dragging them down the highway. The people in the car said the trailer came off about a mile down the road, they also said it came to a stop off the road, that was good luck. So we unhitched the tongue and dragged it further off the road, we turned the truck and 5th wheel around good luck we are on a 4 lane highway. When we got to the atv trailer it was good luck that there was a place wide enough so we were able to pull off. It was good luck that the police officer was already there with the lights blinking warning the on coming cars. It was good luck we had the problem in the small town of Helper Utah. Because everyone was very helpful and kind. The police officer called the tow truck, and couple of guys found the tongue and hitch and picked it up and brought it back to us---how lucky is that. We were lucky to have such a great tow truck driver, he called around and found a place to take the trailer, found someone to weld it back together the next day. We asked him where a RV park was, he didn't just tell us, we followed him to the park. The next day the welder said that the trailer couldn't just be welded back together, it wouldn't be safe. He said it could be fixed,but it would cost a lot more and would take more time. The owner of the repair shop said we could leave the trailer in his back lot, until we came back for it. Gary bought another trailer. (see picture above) and we headed to Moab. See we are pretty lucky................ we feel very lucky that no one was hurt or killed when the trailer broke off. No, we are not lucky, we are blessed.
So far the best part of the trip was seeing these wind machines up close, they were right next to the road in Spanish Forks UT. They are huge. We don't have them in our area of Idaho, the ones we do have are many miles away and up on a bluff. 
3 comments:
Yes, count your blessings that no one was hurt, and sounds like you had some really nice people helping out! Good ending to what could have gone really bad.
You were very lucky!! So Gary got a new trailer..what did you get? :)
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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