On Location Tour Continues

After a great day on the water at Princeton Lake we left the site at 8.00pm with a 4 hour journey ahead of us to Cypress near Houston. W were only 60 miles out and and the GPS had in the small town of Anderson, we were of the beaten track fir sure!
We needed to make a sharp right turn to avoid hitting low hanging trees, we cut the corner sharp and hadn't realized we we driving the rear wheels of the Tour Rig right into a culvert ditch. The back of the Rig dropped and bottomed out when the Trailer hit the road surface, the tow-hitch was digging into the black top and the right rear wheels we hanging in the air. This was not a good combination for an early arrival at Cypress! By now it was gone midnight and we were whipped from the full day in the boat. The trees we had tried to avoid hitting were on the property across the road from the culvert and the property owner was sitting on his balcony probably think was a bunch of tools!



After accessing the situation it became clear the boat trailer had to be taken of the coach, as it would not go forward without traction and it would not for backwards as the ass was dragging and the tow-hitch had dug into the Tarmac. The guy who owned the house across the street was very cool and happy to help, I guess he thought if he did not help we were stuck in front of his house and blocking both directions of traffic. Ryan and his loverly wife were amazing and After help take the boat off the back of the Rig and tow it back up the hill and out of the way, we could now focus on using the hydraulic jacks on the coach to raise the back end and fill the culvert with anything we could find. Ryan is a tree climber (tree surgeon) and had a large cedar log and a bunch of tree limbs from a job he had worked on.
We also dismantled him rockery out front of his house to fill the culvert, once it was full and level we dropped a sheet of plywood across it all and lowered the coach by letting down the jacks!
This worked a treat and we were out of ditch by 2.00am.



I have to say we have met some amazing people this summer on the Tour and Ryan was no exception, Texas's are amazing friendly people ready to do what ever it takes to help out. Ryan did not bat an eyelid and jump all over the challenge. Anderson is a very small town with the oldest Court House in Texas and once was the capital of the Republic of Texas and the very old house that Ryan had bought only four months earlier was once a guest house to Samuel Adams!

Ryan you are a Very Cool Fella!

Location:Anderson TX