FauntleroyFAN07
Commander of Donalds Crew Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2007
all, we are back and ready to live the trip again through the wonderful world of TR's. There are many things I need to explain before I start so We will get to that first.#1. This will be long, it will have lots of pictures, but it will be long, we were gone for a total of 17 days. and like always have our share of interesting stories along the way to tell.
#2. the title of this report, can be traced back to the PreTR, i was having trouble coming up with a title so i had a little contest to help me name it, greatbiscuit came up with the name, based on experiences that happened on previous trips, which can be found in the old TR (which have links below) i kept trying to think of titles to change the TR to but none came to me, so we will stick with this one, and i personally like it alot so there you go.
#3. no matter how many times you go to disney, you always learn something new, i'm up to about 15 visits in my life time, and im still learning new things, maybe it is because i am getting older, but im seeing and experiencing new things, so I will have a section titled "lessons learned" in the chapters as I type.
thats enough rambling for now, so i will get on with it,
oh wait one more thing,
#4. i do ramble, and i type fast, so i make mistakes, and i never have a plan where a chapter is going when i start it, so sometimes it wont make sense, but you will get the gyst of things (i think gyst is spelled wrong)
now i can start
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Who: me, wife, son, my parents
when: june 3rd to June 19th
where: disney FW campground
you might wanta to know who we are, so here is my crazy family.
my wife, candi, son parker, and me, the story teller.
candi will chime in from time to time parker, the goofball of the trip, and one who many of the stories will revolve around, and me.
here is grandma and granpa, or as parker calls them and they will be refered to in this report,
papa and nana, or nene
my parents gave us this trip as our anniversary present this year and picked up the tab for everything, which we greatly appreciated, since we are hoping to buy/build a new house next year.
June 3rd is our departure day, my mom works in a school system so we had to wait till she got out for the day, i worked till about 11 and then headed home to get last minute things finished up, unplug things, turn things off, turn things down, etc...everything was packed in the camper the night before and ready for us.
before we left our house, parker took off his last count down day.
and the only place we wanted to eat before we headed out was olive garden
we had a disney call set up for him that afternoon the sound is decent for a loud restraunt, here is the call.
soon my mom arrived home and we were set to leave about 1:15 but not before a group photo in the yard.
Since it is a long drive down about 21 hours total, we have gifts for parker to open to keep his interest, his first present from my mom was a new buzz stuffed animal...he loved it.
our first adventure greets us just north of Indy, we feel a slight vibration on the truck, nothing big just feels like a bad section of road, then it starts to feel like we are on the rumble strips on the side of the road. Good thing we were right by an exit, so we pull off and me and my dad check the truck cant find anything so back in we go...we drive 10 feet who truck is shacking like the winnie the pooh ride where tigger is bouncing.
and we end up driving up to get off the exit ramp and pull onto the country road there.
we get out to look at the truck again, and find this.
the front truck tire had the biggest pimple on it ever.
I get the jack under the truck and jack it up
we walk to the back end to get the spare tire and hear a huge explosion not 10 seconds later...
it was the tire blowing out.
good thing i jacked it up and was out of there, it would have blown right next to my arm, and who knows what it would have done to me.
who changing took about 30 minutes, so not to bad, we even had a car with a few teenage/20's guys pull over and ask if they could help out pretty nice fellows.
so tire was changed and it was time to continue on again.
here is where I had the first "lesson learned" of the trip.
Lesson learned, when a tire blows on a vehicle dont tell your mother it was because that was the corner of the truck she was sitting on, especially if you are saying it where she is in shot and is able to kick you in the backside.
once we start traveling again, i get on the phone to my BIL to find us a tire store close because, my dad wants to get 2 new tires for the front of the truck, he does not like driving on spares, especially when you are pulling as much weight as the trailer behind us.
not 5 minutes later we see a sign for a semi/truck tire shop at the next exit, so we pull off and they are open for 5 more minutes before they leave for the day, but agree to stay and fix us up, we dont even have to unhook the trailer, just pull around.
parker was good while we waited, we just walked around and looked at the tires, and had some string cheese.
a few hours later, we are pulling into our night stop about 20 minutes north of the state line. parker climbs up on the picnic table and after nana takes his picture he points at the trailer and goes uhh oohhh nana
she looks back to see red blood drops all along the side of the trailer on the top. we all come around and start laughing, some may not find it funny, but we did with what happened so far on our day.
the picture is not bad, so you should all be okay, the bird was just sleeping up there. he hit the side and must have kept going till he found something that stopped him.
his head was caught around the awning for the slide out.
i ended up using a long stick that we use to push water off the top of the camper, you can see it in the next picture, we told parker that he was going to go continue his nap in the woods with the other animals. and he helped grandpa secure the trailer tires.
then it was time to help me with the back jacks, he always ran and helped me get the drill to crack them down.
once we were all set up, candi and i started off on our run, for the last few months now we have been running about a mile a day in our neighborhood and did not want to lose what we gained while on vacation.
so there is our first day and the beginning of our trip thus far.
i hope you guys enjoy it, and feel free to lurk, but it is also fun to have people join in on the conversations as well. i resond to everyone so type away.
If you want to skip the in between chatter, the next post will be a spot for the chapter listings
Tire pimple, blown out tire, two new tires, string cheese, a dead bird (poor thing 
)...and an evening jog. Fun!
