“When things go wrong, the adventure begins!”

Someone emailed me this expression. I’ve found it quite useful.

In the early days of our road tripping travels, my attitude was not quite so chipper. I recall a couple of Airstream-related temper tantrums. When our best laid plans took a turn for the worse, we shut off the video camera. (Usually this was in response to my wife, who invariably shouted, “Will you turn that thing off?!”)

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Then one day it dawned upon me: when things go wrong, the adventure begins, and LIFE GETS INTERESTING. Travel, especially the RV form of travel, is a continuous exercise in problem solving. Sometimes the problems are expected, but occasionally you get tossed a spitball. So now we let the cameras roll.

You hear a lot of horror stories about tire blowouts. When a tire rapidly loses pressure, many vehicles become as unstable as Randy Quaid in an Amsterdam coffee shop.