We woke up this morning to find a flat on one of our back inside tires. Grrr! We replaced all four back tires in DC a few weeks ago so this was really frustrating. We called our roadside assistance and they sent out the "Rescue Rangers". They were quite the pair! First they were two hours late so we were getting antsy. They didn't receive word that we had an RV, even though Eric told the dispatch three times to make sure they have a jack big enough to lift a motorhome. So they were unprepared to help us, their jack couldn't lift the RV. We ended up borrowing a bottle jack from another camper and put the spare on. (We need to get one of those when we get home!)
We drove to Newbury Tire in Newbury, Ohio, and those guys were great. They said that the DC tire shop put our old valve stems back on with our new tires, and that's what broke today. Grrr! We had the Newbury guys switch out all four valve stems with heavy duty ones so we hopefully won't have any more tire issues.
The tires took up all morning and early afternoon. Caleb was happy to have a chance to watch the World Cup and the other kids played at the campground playground.
Once we were back on the road we went over to Middlefield, Ohio to the fourth largest Amish community in the world. We saw lots of horse-drawn buggies and wagons driving on the rode with the cars. They also have a type of bicycle with pedals that they stand on, kinda like a big scooter. There was lots of laundry hanging from clotheslines in front of nearly every house in the area. One of them had a pulley system with ropes and the laundry was two stories high up to the top of a barn!
We stopped at a cheese factory and bought cheese, beef sticks and jerky for lunch and let the kids play in the wagon on display.
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