Thursday, November 24, 2011

Crossed the Border today


We made it Lewistown, MT today, weather was great, and the border crossing was okay, the border guard we encountered was very grumpy, must have been having a bad day.  He asked questions that were not necessary, e.g. how come you are so late crossing the border, you usually cross earlier, it was not so much the question but the attitude, plus other comments he made, e.g. “how come you are going to AZ, it gets too hot there, I used to live there…” , he was just surly.  Woody smiled and answered his questions and thanked him for his concern for our welfare.  Just past Great Falls I heard a noise coming from the front of the truck, told Woody to stop the truck (he couldn’t hear it with his hearing aids), so we pulled over, lifted the hood and lo and behold the new fan belt was fraying, wow did not expect that, Woody cut off the frayed piece and we carried on, wondering what could be causing the new belt to fray and praying we would reach Lewistown before the fan belt totally frayed which we did of course.   One more stop to cut of another piece that frayed and that was it.  Another Guardian Angel came to our rescue in Lewistown, Mike who manages the campground is an auto mechanic and airplane mechanic, after hearing our story regarding the fan belt he took a look and found the belt tensioner was worn out which he replaced for us, we even got a discount of the parts, now I know the Good Lord is looking after us.  We spent a couple of nights in Lewistown and left praying that would be the end of issues with the truck.

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