The Lord works in mysterious ways

We had a fun weekend camping with our good friends the Hansens. We brought them down to our favorite spot near Woodland Park. We forgot to fill up with gas before we left and just made it down to the campsite when our gas light came on. So, we used the Durango very sparingly since we didn't want to have to run into town just to fill up on gas. We had some great campfires, did some fishing (or shall I say a bunch of casting), did a little hiking and just had some fun. We only stayed one night this time. On the way home we didn't risk getting to the gas station that had $3.76 gas but filled up for $3.81. It was still much cheaper than the $3.89 gas around Denver. Go figure - gas is cheaper up in the mountains.

Well, here comes the blessing. On our way home, about half way between Colorado Springs and Denver on I-25 one of our tires on our pop-up camper trailer blew out as we were going about 75 mph or so. We got to the side of the road quickly to check it out. The tire was shredded. Fortunately we have a good spare but there was not a huge shoulder on this very busy stretch of freeway. Well, we look up and we ended up stopping right in front of a sign that reads "Rest Area 2000 feet ahead". So, we limped along to the rest area where we were able to change the tire at leisure without the danger of the freeway.

We brought out the coolers to get some treats and drinks. We were able to use the bathrooms. I showed the boys how to change a tire. I can't remember the last time I needed to change a tire. We had the rest rooms to clean up all the dirt and grease. It was such a blessing to have happened where it did - right by the rest area.

I was chatting with my Dad after we got back and told him the story. He reminded me that we have a cousin that was killed when a tire on his trailer blew and the trailer caused the truck to flip and killed him. Celia also had her truck flipped when she was towing a trailer full of furniture and the tire blew and flipped the truck also. She is ok now. So, I count us very blessed that we did not have any other incident but just a shredded tire and that we had the convenience of the rest area to take care of things. Someone is looking out for us.