On The Meandering Road: May 24, 2018 - Springville, UT to Ashton, ID

The shop was open earlier than 8 am, and Russell, the owner/manager brought in a chrome tailpipe that needed to be cut to size. It took the mechanic like 15 minutes to fit the tailpipe in and secured it with a hanger.

We slept among those semis overnight

Erwin checking to be sure the tailpipe is positioned correctly

Ta-da... How does it look?

It was around 9 am when the repairs were all done, but we had to wait for Easy Care Extended Service Warranty for approval on parts/labor. Russell had to run through each part with stock number and quantity. It was time consuming for him and us. He told Erwin that he had never dealt with extended service warranty companies before, said he would never work on any vehicle if there was a warranty.

After going back and forth between Russell and Easy Care the invoice had to be revised a couple times to show our balance. I felt sorry for the secretary who had to revise the invoice on the computer. It was around 2:20 pm when we finally left the shop! Whew!

We took I-15 North, and the traffic jam was not so bad, but it took us 2 hours to reach Brigham City, UT. There we pulled into rest area because we left a case of bottled water in the car and needed to have some in our Lil' Home. We rested a bit before continuing the journey.

Devil Creek Reservior
See how deep blue the water is
off I-15 north of Malad City, ID

We took an exit to a rest area in Blackfoot, ID to fix supper. Since I did not take out meat to thaw I settled on breakfast with bacon, hash browns and eggs. I thought we were going to dry camp here, but Erwin wanted to continue driving.

It was near Ashton, ID that it started to rain and there were lightnings. Erwin had a hard time focusing on the road when it started to get dark At 9:15 pm he turned into a wide pullout to park for the night.