Go West old man!: Pima County Fairgrounds RV Park, Tucson, AZ

Finally made it to Arizona! Tomorrow makes 5 weeks on the road. Crossed the Continental Divide today, one more sign of being in the West.
When we got up this morning at Hidden Valley Ranch it kind of chilly, 28 degrees I think. We went for a short walk up a hillside and while up there we started to see this white stuff float by on the wind. Yup, snow. But that's all we saw of snowfall. Although we did see lots of cars and trucks with snow on them once we got on the interstate. And several snow piles where cars had lost snow onto the road. We talked with one RV guy who stayed in El Paso last night and they had snow on the ground this morning. Yup, HVR was the right place to stay.

We were about 12 minutes from camp today when a guy passed us, slowed down, pulled over then came up beside us gesturing to me. So I pulled over to take a look at what might be bothering him. Sure enough it was a tire problem. Actually 2. Both on the passenger side of the trailer, the front tire was almost gone, I mean there was a ribbon of rubber where there used to be a tire. The rear tire was worn to the steel belts. No way to continue and the rear tire was so bad that I couldn't go on even if I put the spare on the front. So I called Good Sam Roadside Assistance, sort of AAA for the trailer. It took a couple hours for Jose to get there but he changed the destroyed tire with the spare and then put a new tire on the rim of the other tire. It was interesting to watch him take a tire off the rim and put a new one on there on the side of the road. I imagine we have all seen them do this on hydraulic machines, but this was old style hand tools. My theory; the front tire hit something on the road and blew out or leaked out. I didn't hear or feel anything sudden so it leaked out. Then as it broke apart it whipped the already partially worn rear tire until it lost it's outer tread leaving just the belts. It too was flat before Jose arrived. I had just looked at the tires 30 minutes prior at a rest stop too.

I got a few more chapters of my latest Archer Mayor book read while we waited! This one is "The Price of Malice"

We finally got parked on our campsite around 5, the tire event started at 1 PM. Nice to be here. We are here for a week. We seldom have trouble finding stuff to do around Tucson, there is always the Saguaro National Park on two sides of town, lots of museums etc. etc. And I have to find a tire and probably a rim, I'm afraid the rim got ground on the pavement and may be too damaged to seal a tire.

Monday, entering New Mexico