ok...

i borrowed my mother-in-laws's jeep...

so i am driving off road up this canyon to get a bunch of rocks for my yard and on the way back i see this trail that goes up and off over a rise and i think... cool... i'll check that out.. so its a good crawl over the rise and then it goes down into a valley that looks pretty boring so i make a u turn at the top... at this point i realize that something ist right with the truck so i stop and get out and the right rear tire is mangled pretty good and off the rim.. and the rim is gouged up pretty good too... the trail was full of sharp ass rocks and i figure i must have torn the side wall...

so i go to change the tire and the spare is flat too... last month i told her that her spare was low and she said she would put air in it.. but i guess she didnt, or maybe the spare had a leak... she goes driving on these trails all the time so i didnt think that she would let it slip her mind... its pretty important to have a spare with air in it... i should have checked it myself...

so i have to unload all the cool ass rocks that i got so i can drive home on the flat tire... its sort of getting dark and i think that this would realy suck if i had to do it at night... i am looking at a 20 minute drive home with a flat tire the first 500 feet of which is down the rock strewn pitch that i just came up... but this time its on a flat tire... i am thinking that i just have to keep the tire on the rim and i will be fine.. so i go down as easy as i can and i adjust the right mirror so that i can see the tire and make sure it doesnt go off the rim.. if it does i will just have to stop and walk because i dont want to destroy the rim as i probably already destroyed the first one...

so yeah... 500 feet of rocky crawling on a flat and then i can drive the wash almost all the way home... the sandy wash will be easy on the flat tire... so i make it down to the wash that runs the narrow canyon- i am relieved.... but i forgot how far it was out of the canyon and there were a few serious cataracts in the wash where i had to get out and move some rocks and try to smooth out a path that was less dangerous for the flat tire.. but i got that done and made it out of the canyon into the wide soft sandy wash that goes almost all the way to my house... there is maybe 800 meters of pavement to my house after that...

when i got home i took the tire off and took it to get air and it held... so yeah... she didnt ever put air in it when i told hger it was low... i was worried that i wore through the side wall but i didnt... but i did put a nice ring around the sidewall that shows through to the threads... so tomorrow i am going to take the busted up rim and see if its toast or not... i am for sure going to need 2 tires and maybe a new rim.. so that was a costly trip...

photos tomorrow...