Well, this AM it was off to Les Scwabb Tire to see about getting PUP looked at. Hmmm. No can do – gotta bring it in. DAMN! Pack it up, collapse it, drive it down so they can look at it, then drive it back, and put it back up. Nah, there has to be another way …

Ok, got off my ass and decided to troubleshoot it myself – jack it up, and check it for play, probably just loose or worn bearings – cheap fix! Well, no such luck. Bearings have minimal play, and spin very freely (though not TOO freely, so they have lube). That means the axle is bent, which it looks like if you crawl under the trailer – great. That was the $800 fix we got quoted, with a month-long wait for the axle. Great. Is it worth putting $800 into a $2,700 trailer? No, not really. Of course, we can just keep putting tires on it, it really should not get any worse, but we don’t like that option. We’ll have to mull this over. We go back into Boise to go to another RV dealer and see what they have that might work for us. Oh, yeah – and the smoke is back, with a vengeance! This time we’re told it’s smoke from fires in California. Great. You can hardly see the mountains that are only about eight miles away. We’re not riding around breathing that air! So tomorrow will be another lost day. Well, we’ll use it to try and figure out what to do about PUP. This is definitely NOT the fun part.