Stupid Axles!!!!

Camping overnight a Morry’s is always interesting. We arrived just as Tony Lane had finished setting up his rig, so he gave us a hand to connect to electricity. It’s always fun to run into other forum members who are camping for the night - we met Gary from New Brunswick and Don from Perth. Well the propane heaters quickly warmed up our units and after a short chat we settled in for the evening.

Lo and behold at 4 am it was 42 degrees in the Titanium – so Paul had to go out and switch the propane tanks and fire up the heater. It seems we only run out of propane in the middle of the night.

The work on our rig started early and by eleven am all my scheduled work was almost done. But when they raised the rig they checked the wheel bearings …guess what! I got to join all the other Titanium owners with a set of problem bearings. Even though I have Lippert axles not Dexter axles – it seems our unit suffered the same defect.

After an examination of the options, we decided to leave the trailer at Morry’s and get replacement axles from Lippert shipped to Morry’s. It got real interesting trying to empty the contents of the home we lived in for the past six months into the pickup. Well it was crammed packed, but we did a good job of packing. So off we went down the 401 and got home in Ottawa by 11:00 pm.

The weather in Ottawa is terrible – so it’ s nice to be in a warm home. We will go back to get our trailer in a few weeks (maybe it will really be spring by then!). We are settling in to our Ottawa routines and preparing to spend Easter weekend at home.

Here are some of our last pictures showing camping in warm Mississippi and the slow progression north into snow!