Travel to Logan Via Draper

When you have 2 incidents like we have had the previous 3 days with our tire blowouts, you begin to anticipate another one. We limped from Beaver, UT to Draper, UT - a total of about 175 miles. We only went 50 MPH the whole way and even though it took us almost 4 hours, we averaged over 11 MPG which is a new record for gas mileage. We made it into Draper and stopped at the Doubletree Dealership there and wasted our time. We never heard of an RV dealership that sold name brand RV's not performing any tire or wheel work in their service department. Anyway, they sent us over to the Les Schwab Tire store about a mile away. Draper is a very nice town outside of Salt Lake City and I snapped this shot on the street between the dealership and Les Schwab:

I had made phone calls to both the dealership and Les Schwab the night before, but it was my understanding that they would deliver the tires to the dealership, not knowing they had no capability to do the work. Anyway, we had 4 new tires put on the fifth wheel and $1200 later we headed out for Logan, UT. We are using the new, mismatched tire that we bought in Cedar City as the spare.

It was only about 75 miles to Logan and we arrived at Traveland at 4:15 PM. It is a nice site as you can see below:

We decided to take a short drive through this college town (Utah State is located here) to see the sights. It is another beautiful part of Utah and we came across the Logan Temple of the Mormon Church and it was a building that could be seen from all over town, sitting on top of a hill:

It was a beautiful drive most of the way, and it is too bad that we had the tire problems along the way. We have concluded, with agreement from the tire expert at Les Schwab, that the problem was a result of old tires. He suggested that RV tires be replaced every 3-4 years, and ours were 4 1/2 years old. At any rate, we are equipped with brand new tires and can crank it up again on the highways.

Our drive today will be 188 miles. We hope to arrive early this afternoon to allow some time for set-up in our site where we will be for the next 4 months. It should be another beautiful drive through some nice country again today...