We were heading to Omaha, Nebraska...going to spend a day there. I had a two night reservation at the Omaha KOA but plans changed. A couple hours down the road, there was a large noise coming from behind the RV in the vicinity of the car dolly. We pulled over. It was not good. We had lost part of the hub which keeps the whole thing together. By the grace of God, we caught it before the car flew off the back and killed someone! We were on the side of the road in nowhere, Nebraska. There were no businesses open because it was a Sunday. Luckily, there are some amazing people that live in Nebraska!
There was a house way off the road that we were sitting on. The man who owned the house stopped to see if we needed any help. When Kevin told him our situation, he gave him the number to a friend of his who owned an auto parts store. This nice man came and picked Kevin up and for over an hour, they looked for the parts to fix the dolly with no luck. This man called another man who said he could find the parts on Monday so we were stuck for the night.
The Omaha KOA was nice and agreed not to charge us for that night and we found a small, locally owned campground in Chadron. Unless you want to go to Walmart, there is not much to do there so we watched old episodes of Lost and a movie and Kevin picked up pizza.
The next morning, this third man helping us was having trouble finding what we needed but around noon, he called Kevin and said we should be good to go in about 45 minutes. A wave of relief went over all of us!
We were on the road by one and got to Omaha about 10:00 that night...not really a good time for sightseeing. At this point, Kevin was ready to get home. The stresses of driving and missing work were catching up to him and he was on a mission. We are on our third day of driving and should be home tonight. We have driven through Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky....but we are NC bound.
Thanks for joining us on our travels! Our family has been to 47 states now! It is stressful traveling on an RV for a month with 5 people and 2 dogs but I believe the rewards overshadow that part. My hope is that my children will look back on these adventures with fondness and tell their children about them. I look forward to being home but it has been so special to have this time away from the distractions of every day life to spend with my family. These children who were so young when we started RVing are growing up fast and in three years, Zack will graduate. This is time that we will never forget....
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