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	1	+So, we're heading toward Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, but it will take two days of travel to get there.  We decided to spend one night at [[Tanbark Campground>>https://tanbarkcampground9.wixsite.com/tanbarkcampground]] outside of Dickson, TN, a drive of ~~350 miles:
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	6	+Shouldn't be too bad.  But, just wait...
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	8	+There were a number of large backups on I-40 which cost us about 1 hour, there was a stop at Costco (for more lemon coated almonds!), there were two stops for gas, and then...
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	10	+Ok, first we exited North Carolina and entered Tennessee:
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	15	+After quite a few while, RIchard saw this woman pass us and give him a strange look...
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	17	+Then, Richard saw another person pass us and signal that we should pull over!
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	19	+Having seen this type of thing before, we suspected what was to occur next and wanted to pull completely off of the freeway into a parking lot (as we did the last time), but alas, there were no turn offs for many miles.  So, we pulled over onto the shoulder in the middle of a wide, straight, stretch of freeway and turned on the flashers.
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	21	+Looking at the trailer tires, we found that the front tire on the passenger side was completely destroyed!
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	26	+So, we set about replacing it with the spare tire.  It's actually really easy to do this on a trailer which has two axles.  You can simply ride the good tire onto a large set of blocks, which raises the bad tire off of the ground sufficiently that it's fairly easy to replace!  (Just make sure you lossen the lug nuts first, since after it's raised off of the ground it'll spin too freely to do so.)  We always keep a large lug wrench and a torque wrench in the truck just for such an occurance, and we have a cigarette lighter powered tire inflater which we use regularly to check and top up pressure.  After replacing the tire torquing it to the appropriate amount (using a star pattern of tightening, of course) and topping up the pressure, we were back on the road an hour later!  We stopped after a while to make sure the torque was still good, and made it to the campground much later than originally intending!  (We called the campground to say we would be arriving late, of course.  They met us at the office within seconds of our arrival!)
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	32	+We were a little concerned about the upcoming rain:
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	37	+but it obligingly held off until after we got into the site, leveled, chaulked, and hooked up with electricity and water!
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	39	+The showers at this campground are quite adequate and we are finally resting comfortably after a long and sometimes trying day.
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	41	+Tomorrow, we travel just a little longer than today and finally reach Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.
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	45	+Monday, April 6:
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