Back on the road but off the Interstate for a while as we are headed north up to South Dakota's Black Hills. On the way we stop at Chimney Rock, one of the most recognizable landmarks along the Oregon Trail. We missed the entrance road to the visitor center and learned something in the process. I had pulled off the road in a small gravel turnout and made a super tight u-turn, as we pulled back onto the paved road it was apparent that something was wrong. At first I thought it was our turn to have a flat tire as by this time in the trip we had seen a dozen trailers with flats on the side of the road. It turned out to be our emergency brake-away system, it that uses a small battery to fire off the electric trailer brakes if the trailer becomes detached from the tow vehicle. The trigger pin just got pulled out during the u-turn, something that had never happened to us before. We also learned that the Pacifica can drag the Shasta a bit when it's on loose gravel.
We also make a stop at Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska. As I planned out route I looked for some slightly oddball stuff to work in here and there and Carhenge was one that I was really excited about. What we found there was pretty cool and put smiles on our faces that finally wiped away any left-over tornado fears from the previous day. It was at Carhenge that we ran into one of the few other vintage trailers that we would see on the road during this trip. The trailer was a late 60's or early 70's Aristocrat owned by a family that had been to South Dakota and was on it's way back home to Colorado.
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