Ants Chiggers Cooters Skeeters & Repairs

On the way down to Florida we got one mile down the road and our camper hitch made a clunk and the anti sway bar broke off the hitch bar. We decided to go without it. Later about thirty miles down the road we stopped for fuel and as we were leaving one of the equalizer bars dropped loose. Gary rigged up a temporary fix and we were off again. After a rest stop in Southern Georgia we were covered with chigger bites. We didn't know we had chigger bites till later that evening when we arrived in Florida and started to itch, and itch, and itch.

As we set up camp that's when the mosquitoes, or as some call them, skeeters, came out in droves. Chigger bits and skeeter bites and more itching and itching.

The next day while our camper was getting tires we went to Cooter Pond. There really is such a thing as a cooter turtle and we saw lots of them.

We also saw a small alligator in the pond. He was about six feet long.

Meanwhile back at the shop our camper trailer, a toy hauler, needed brakes and the bearings packed. After we left the repair shop we found out our trailer brakes weren't working so we had to go back and get a brake control.  We ended up spending over twelve hundred dollars on tires which we knew we needed then brakes, bearings packed and brake control which we didn't know we needed. Also the clearance lights needed repair.

We're half way back to Florida now in a little town called Harira Georgia and we have an invasion of tiny ants this morning. First we thought they were just on the counter now we see they are all over the floor. Yikes, we have no spray so we're doing a tap dance trying to get rid of them. Please keep your fingers crossed for the remainder of our trip. We need all the luck we can get. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.