Marooned in Marathon ~ Warning: Contains Images of Tow Car Destruction Not Fit for Viewing By the Timid or Weak of Wallet
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Yikes – A beautiful morning for travel ends up to be a day filled with frustration, unanticipated expenses and unanswered questions.
As best we can piece together (no pun intended) the passenger side front tire of our tow car blew out, shredded and wrapped the remains of itself around the inside of the wheel apparently locking it up. Wow!
Sixtos Towing hooked us up and got us off of TX FM 118 and out of Big Bend NP and onto TX 90 at Marathon. A days worth of phone calls to the Smart Car dealer in San Antonio gets us tires and a new wheel maybe by the next day.
So here we sit in Marathon, Texas waiting for a tire and a wheel to be shipped from San Antonio.
Waiting for answers as well.
The following images need no commentary.
White marks are gouges from the wheel rim in the road surface, made as we got the rigs off the road.
Oh my!
Chisos Mountains across the Chihuahuan Desert. Debbie and Sixto tend to the flatbedded Smart Car.
🙁
OUCH!!!
I’d say worse than a speeding ticket in NY State.
😉
Marathon is an interesting railroad/ranching/avant-garde Texas town to be stuck in.
People are friendly and interesting wherever you go.
That car is so tiny that you should have been able to pop it on top of or inside the camper for repair delivery. Towing hardly seems necessary.
You are a little hard on the “equipment”, aren’t you?
Are you sure it wasn’t some goat that was having “Doritos” withdrawal?