Sittin in the Land of OZ..

This week has taken a down hill slide! Here we sit in Liberal KS. This lifestyle is not all roses. Kinda Stressful and more Whine than Roses. We have had two nights of boondocking, which in itself wasn't bad. We're at a campground tonight, needed a real long hot shower to take care of the nerves. Had the hopes today to get a bunch of miles under our belts. New tires and all.
Then the valve stems in the tires on the Suburban gave out. So we stopped before lunch at WalMart in Garden City and had 3 more replaced. Off we went. 30 miles down the road, horrible noise on the right rear by the wheel. Didn't know what it was but it sounded REAllY bad. Found problem. Shocks are shot. Knew they were getting bad and was replacing at the Rally in Yuma in March. Didn't make it. Had a 4 establishment run around in Liberal Ks. Nobody had em, no body wanted to work on it, nobody could.....ok.....at the Detroit Diesel shop, they were searching for shocks. I got on the phone and am having 4 overnighted from Grants Pass ORE. They will be here at noon tomorrow. Very expensive. If we don't have anything else happen, it will be a $5,000 1200 mile trip. Kinda bummed. I won't set any goals for tomorrow. I did that for today and we didn't get very far! Again. This is a nice stopover campground. We will need to boondock a lot of nights to make up for this.