12 July 2019 Where the Rubber Meets the Road

We drove into Kalispell to get new tires put on the truck at Discount Tire. They were getting close to needing replacing, and David did not want to get on the west coast and need to replace them there (tires are more expensive and disposal fees are massively higher on the west coast). We only had 39,962 miles on them, but being all terrain tires, they were not the best tires for towing.  We replaced all six tires with Michelin Defenders, which are better road tires for towing but still can get us around off pavement. They promised that it would only take an hour to replace the tires since we had made an appointment in advance. So, of course it took two hours. We took the opportunity to do some local shopping (David picked up bear spray, just in case).