Heading Home Day 4

Monday, June 29, 2009. The day started out really good. Everything was going smoothly. We drove to Mitchell, South Dakota, where we stopped and toured the Corn Palace. Then we head towards Rapid City. We stopped for gas in a town called Murdo. That is when our good day ended! Ken filled up with gas and then noticed that we were leaking fluid. He pulled the motor home to another part of the service station that was used for parking big rigs. When he got underneath, it was transmission fluid. It looked like the main seal on the transmission had gone bad. He started up the motor home to see how bad it was leaking and the fluid just poured out. Worst nightmare come true! We had to call and find a transmission shop who could fix it and then call to get a tow truck to tow us. It turned out that the closest shop that could work on us was in Rapid City - 136 miles away. They arranged for the tow truck to come, but we had another issue. Only one person could ride with the tow truck driver and there were 5 of us. So, we had to arrange to get a rental car and have it towed out to us. Six hours later, we were on our way into Rapid City. We arrived at the Aamco shop at 11:30 p.m. and decided to stay in the motor home for the night.