So one thing I wanted to say yesterday, and didn't: A lot of the places we were yesterday were along the old Route 66, route. I could swear I saw Radiator Springs off in the distance one time. I asked Carolyn if we could go visit Mater & Sally.
We started the day in Flagstaff, and got away much later than we wanted to. I really wanted to get to an RV parts store, but the only one in town wasn't open on Sundays. So we took off. The sway I felt yesterday was worse today. We stopped a couple of times to make adjustments in the hitch hoping it would help. We thought it helped a little.
This is what most of the day looked like. It looked nicer in person, and for the first half hour.
Then: "Houston, we have a problem." We blew a tire, that did some damage to the trailer. We limped into a little town. With no tire stores or real service stations. My tire iron didn't fit the trailer wheels. But a Navajo guy came along and helped.
Then I found a hardware store to buy a tire iron, and some parts to fix the water hoses that were torn up by the tire. That put us 2 hours behind.
We spent the rest of the afternoon driving near Monument Valley, and seeing Four Corners, but never got to see Mesa Verde in Colorado. We hope to tomorrow, but we have to buy a tire first.
Then we packed Jack for a trip out back, to St. Elmo, and old ghost town from the 1880s.
First we stopped at famous K's in BV for burgers, ice cream, and a picnic in the park.
At St. Elmo we saw hummingbirds, chipmunks, and lots of old buildings.
Tonight Grandma and Grandpa got to stay home with Jack. Grandpa made up a song for him called, "Way Out Back With Jack." He'll probably even sing it for you if you ask. :)
We finally made it to see Jack! Yay!
That took some time in the morning, so we had just a short time to visit the Anasazi ruins at Mesa Verde National Park.
The trip to Mike & Kallie's took us over the continental divide at Wolf Creek Pass. It was a beautiful drive, and even had some rain. Then Colorado on the east side of the divide was quite a different place.
We arrived in time to go out for a steak dinner. And, of course, spend a lot of time watching, and taking pictures of, Jack.
Most of Tuesday was spent repairing the plumbing damage on the trailer. Like Thomas Edison said, I didn't fail a bunch of times, I discovered a bunch of ways that didn't work. Finally about dark we had water in the trailer, and only a few drips on the ground.
We started the day in Flagstaff, and got away much later than we wanted to. I really wanted to get to an RV parts store, but the only one in town wasn't open on Sundays. So we took off. The sway I felt yesterday was worse today. We stopped a couple of times to make adjustments in the hitch hoping it would help. We thought it helped a little.
This is what most of the day looked like. It looked nicer in person, and for the first half hour.
Then: "Houston, we have a problem." We blew a tire, that did some damage to the trailer. We limped into a little town. With no tire stores or real service stations. My tire iron didn't fit the trailer wheels. But a Navajo guy came along and helped. 
We spent the rest of the afternoon driving near Monument Valley, and seeing Four Corners, but never got to see Mesa Verde in Colorado. We hope to tomorrow, but we have to buy a tire first.
But the start didn't go smoothly. I forgot to raise one of the stabilizer supports, and bent it before ever getting out of the driveway. That's after we were over 3 hours later than our planned time to leave. I tried to fix it by pushing it back with my feet. But ended up having to take it off.
