August 11 –13 Heading out of Megan and Tod’s, Rick notices a drip coming out of Gigantor. He determines it’s power steering fluid and can’t be driven. After filling it a couple of times, it is just a sieve! Very long story, kind of short, hours later the insurance company determines it cannot approve a mechanic coming in from Jackson Hole (30 miles) but must be towed over the mountains to Idaho Falls. First tow truck comes and determines he cannot make it up “Seel Mountain” and Rick should drive it down! So he does! The tower then decides he cannot tow it at all and we leave Tor by the side of the road to spend the night. The second tower arrives the next morning. We rent a car and head off to
Yellowstone.
We have a fabulous time…see Old Faithful go off twice…see an elk and extraordinary scenery. Arrive Idaho Falls about 5pm…tower arrives about 6. The good news is they got there….the bad news is they did more damage than the $2,000 tow cost! They dropped Tor! I spent a lifetime in Idaho Falls that day. We sleep in Tor in the parking lot at the RV repair shop. Next morning they work rather grudgingly for 5 hours…get it going, but now we have an appointment in Spokane for the rest. Tor is 3 weeks old and looks like an embattled veteran.
Coeur d’Alene will have to wait. Our detour has put us far behind schedule. Maybe stop on the way back. Must get to Cheney for the Rick’s son’s wedding festivities and get Tor to the “spa”. Stop for the evening along the way in Wyoming. Park is supposed to be next to Fairmont Hot Springs Resort and Hotel…definitely a different Fairmont. Another scraggy field with hook-ups…cute playground with teepees and the mountains. Here, however, the mountains are encased in smoke from wildfires. They amazingly have USA Today and I get my first glimpse of a newspaper since Boulder.
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