International Rally at Farmington, NM

We decided at the last moment to attend the rally and visit Carol's sisters in Prescott Valley, AZ.  We left on June 18th for Farmington.  We stated having tire problems the first day out.  The tire stems are failing by forming cracks and leaking.  I replace one stem at CarX in Missouri.  We did not catch the next on in New Mexico and the low pressure resulted in a shredded tire, but no damage to the trailer.  We replaced it with a new Goodyear Marathon.  The next morning, another valve was leaking and I decided we needed to get a complete change of all of the stems before we did $1,000+ damage to the trailer.  I took off the defective tire at Santa Rosa State Park and decided to go to Albuquerque to buy two new tires.  I changed them out in the Walmart parking lot. When we got to Farmington, I decided to change the rest of the tires. I bought 3 more Comando E rated tires. These got put on with metal stems.

I also had to replace the air conditioner compressor and the alternator. It is getting to be a pretty expensive trip. We arrived at the rally on June 21 and joined the VAC parade into the campground the following morning.  The rally was fairly attended at 425 trailer/motorhomes.  The seminars and entertainment were good.  We left the rally on July 5th and headed to Arizona.

We spent the first night near Winslow, AZ and arrived in Prescott the following afternoon.  We camped at Lynx Lake State park for 4 nights and met and toured with the sisters. We retraced our steps via Flagstaff and Santa Rosa to Tucumcari, NM, where we then took 54 north east back to Illinois.