So, with the bathroom hooked back up, we commenced packing and hit the road. Our destination was set for Heavenly Acres, Andrews college friend was getting married and he was promised to be able to see three friends he hadn't in a long time.

At just a little under two hours away, this is an awesome privately owned campground.
Right when we got there and pulled in, we spotted an old Winnebago in the woods.

Upon closer inspection later, we found that it was a really cool, early 1970's Winnebago Indian. The color of green the stripes were painted was glorious.



Super cool to see. Heavenly Acres offers RV hookup, tent camping, and cabin/caboose/rv rentals. Such a cool place. They had about five old train cabooses set up as cabins, they had actual cabins, and they had several RVs that you could rent. Each campsite had a nice firepit, and the lots were huge. Very different from our Grey's Point trip!





The RVs for rent were huge and cool, newer models that probably didn't run.
This did blow our mind...the paver prop-up job was just hilarious. Sketchy.

We made it to our site and set up. Had time to settle the dogs a bit, walk around and explore, and say hi to the bride and groom before wedding time. Perfect!

We realized it was going to rain later that night, and took the opportunity to roll out our awning. It kept our bikes nice and dry in the downpour later.

The wedding was awesome, the bride and groom used the dialogue from the wedding scene of "The Princess Bride" as their opening, it was so good. Very short, sweet and personal ceremony, the bride and groom came down the aisle together with their dog, Oodin. Very sweet.

Everyone got to hang out after the ceremony (which was held beside a raging campfire) into the late night, the bonfire was kept burning HUGE, the wedding favors were s'mores so the kids at the wedding were sugar crazy. As little lights, Heather took single LED's and put them in small glass mason jars and in paper lanterns, they were so pretty.
We were pretty exhausted from waking up so early to fix the Brave and ended up turning in a little early. It was a very eventful and full day, it was great to see Andrew catch up with folks he really missed.
We woke up the next morning and got to have breakfast with Heather and Jason and their family.

There was a bunch of firewood left over from the bonfire, so we set out bringing it up to our campsite to burn. I made at least ten trips down to the bonfire and back up to our site with my bike basket as full as it could be.

Dottie got to hang out with all the kids before they left, which she absolutely loved. We took the dogs on several long walks around the campground and every time they got swarmed by little kids that just wanted to visit. The dogs eat that stuff up!

Dottie loved sprawling on her cooling mat after our walks, she napped quite a bit on the picnic table.

We took advantage of our free time and gave the Brave a bath. It looks a lot less dingy now, the white is bright and the stipes look much better.

We cooked lunch outside and enjoyed the lazy day. The weather was perfect and cool, it was just delightful to sit and relax with no stress.

The evening wore on. We both agreed that RV-ing is the life to lead.

We had some leftover glowsticks from the wedding, and we used them to make collars for the dogs. Not only did they light up the ground for our city dogs in the woods, but we could see where they were easily. They were on leads tied to the heavy picnic table, but Idle always wanders and was so easy to spot with his brightly glowing collar.

It also made for funny pictures while the dogs were wrestling.

We had a nice relaxing night by the fire, just sitting with the dogs, unwinding.

We managed to burn off all the remaining logs. The oak trees above us were glorious!

We woke up early and started getting ready to go home. We wanted to do a couple things at home on our day off, so we wanted a nice early start.

We packed up and headed homeward. Sad to leave, but glad to go home. About forty minutes into the drive, Andrew and I both noticed a loud thumping that sounded like a flat or going flat tire. We pulled over at a gas station to check things out, but all the tires looked normal. They certainly looked evenly inflated, so we assumed the noise was one of the small doors that had come unhinged during the drive. We grabbed a bite to eat and hopped back on the road. As soon as we were on the interstate the noise started up, louder, and the whole RV was shaking. We had no idea what the hell was going on, but something obviously wasn't right. Then, KAAPOW! I checked the mirror to see tons of debris shooting out of the back of the RV. We slowed to a stop and pulled off on the median. Immeaditely I noticed that the tailpipe was on the ground. We cut the engine.

Then we noticed the tire. WOW.

We de-treaded the entire right side rear inner tire. Holy crap. Andrew pulled chunks of tread out of the undercarriage of the Brave, noticing that in addition to snapping the exhaust bracket, it had sliced open the wheel well. DANG!


With no jack, we were screwed. Thankfully, being aware of the fact that we know not very much about RV-ing, the weekend we bought the Brave we also bought a Good Samaritan membership. Its basically road assistance for RV-ers, like AAA. A couple phone calls later, help was on its way. Thankfully we had a spare tire.
Andrew walked back down the highway to get our shredded tire out of the road.

Oh the carnage! Not wanting to be litterers, we tossed it in the RV to get rid of it.
About an hour later, help arrived. A state trooper had come by before and had given us a flare, sitting on the shoulder in the RV with 64 East traffic blasting us was terrifying, and the flare acutally encouraged people to move over. A second trooper arrived after "Rollin Wheels" came, and sat behind us with lights on for their safety.

They jacked the RV up, swapped wheels in just a few minutes, and after quick paperwork had us back on our way. If you get an RV, get Good Sam. It was totally worth it.

Well, we made it home, alive. The last leg of the trip was super stressful and undid all the relaxing we did at Heavenly Acres, so I guess we need to hurry up and go on another adventure!