Sunday 4th - A few choice words for the man who "rebuilt the brakes"!!!

There are advantages of only planning to cover 60 miles a day!! Not leaving the campsite until noon makes for a nice leisurly start to the day (breakfast in bed next)! .....

... and plenty of time for digging those holes on the beach !!

Or just annoying your brother ! Leaving the campsite at noon, we stopped in Santa Barbara for lunch. Today the brakes seemed ok and the bus was running well.
View Larger Map Unfortunately that feeling was short lived. We had stopped for about half an hour for our picnic lunch, and then got back on the freeway to continue South. Very quickly it became apparent that things were far from good. The Bus was really lacking power and the smell of brakes was really strong. With the Bus barely able to maintain 25-30 mph we pulled onto the hard shoulder to inspect. The Brakes were so hot they were smoking but we couldn't stay there. The Hard shoulder was very narrow and the freeway busy, the trucks rocked the bus as they roared past, and we felt very vunerable. We had to drive on to the next exit and off the freeway. A few choice words were said about the quality of the brake rebuild as we crawled along praying that nothing hit us.

At last we made it to the off ramp - at the top of which was a very welcome McDonalds!! We celebrated being alive with ice cream all round while the sad call was made to the tow company.