nally we get into the drive-in, find our family, and sit and watch Star Trek (pretty awesome, by the way.) and that was the end of our Saturday. Ahh, and now we come to Sunday, the start of the new week, a great day to talk with family. Well, I have been bugging Mark to bring his Toyota Land Cruiser home to Colorado, and he said once it got warm out (no snow) we'd bring it back with us. So I was all excited when Mark started getting everything ready to take it back with us!! Yayay! I am so excited to ride around in it, and help him fix it up! I even helped him get it out of the back yard, I steered the Cruiser as he pulled it with the gray truck and a tow rope. It's a 1970 Toyota Land Cruiser, it's got the big 38" tires on it, and it is just beautiful!! So we get it on the tow-bar, make sure the brake lights work, and the top and doors are son securely, and we brace the steering wheel and make sure it's in neutral. We start on our way up 84, to hit up I-80 on head home. We're going thru the canyon, and I notice the Cruiser is wobbling a bit, we're going thru some turns and that makes it wobble more. The last thing I said to Mark was "It's wobbling pretty good, should I be worried?" He looked in his mirrors and very calmly said, "Now you should be w
orried." And I started to scream as we started to fishtail. I didn't watch the Cruiser roll, I think Mark watched as much as he could thru the rear-view mirrors, but I know we missed the cliff on the right side, and there were no other cars around. I remember we took out one .5 mile marker and we stopped on another, and I remember grabbing the puppy as he flopped around the passenger seat. I'm not sure if we spun around full 360, but I think we might have. But once we got to a stop, there were already people stopped, on their cell phones, rushing over to see if we were ok. I asked Mark who I should call, so I calles his dad. His dad and brothers came as fast as they could, and so did a friend of the family. Mark and I are ok, our truck didn't roll, the Land 
Cruiser actually popped off the hitch, but was still attached by a cable that was our chain. We were 10 feet from the Land Cruiser falling into a rock filled trench, and about 40 feet from being smashed against the rock face. We are very luck the tow-bar popped off the hitch, if it had not, the pick-up would have rolled with the Cruiser. The reason for the rollover? Loose lugnuts. The lugs on the rear right tire were loose, and as we turned, the Cruiser wobbled and pulled on the lugs making it worse. And eventually the rear right tire blew out, and then the rear left tire blew out. In the picture there are only 3 tires on the Cruiser, the 4th one is adjacent to the TAGGART exit sign, pretty much by the yellow
curve arrow (>). Yeah it flew that far! (Oh and the dark dirt you see, is a bag of top soil Mark had in the back of the Cruiser.) The top came off of the Cruiser (the doors, and the top were pretty much toast, and so was the wind shield, but the roll cage held like a champ, built by Mark himself. Mark says who needs doors... or tops for that matter.) But in this pic you can see the tire tracks kinda (I didn't want to get in the road) but the tracks start (I think) just to the left of the white Ford Explorer. Mark was taking a balast home (light fixture) so he could put it in the garage. Anyways, so the family showed up and helped out tons, and then to police showed up, stood around a chatted with us and then with each other (for a long time) and then, they just left. They said it looked like we had it taken care of, and Mark didn't damage any state signs or anything, so they were just going to leave, and have a good day. So the family took care of the Cruiser, and Mark and I headed on our way home. Both a little jumpy and very grateful to be alive and not hurt. Well, we got to Rock Springs, I wanted Burger King and Mark wanted some Dew, so we stopped, and at Wal-Mart, I backed the truck up and turned and I heard a pssshhh! coming from the right front tire of the pick-up, but only when I backed up while turning right, not left. So Mark tried to get some rocks out of there and then said once we stop in Rawlins and get gas, he'll look at it. We got about 25 miles out of Rock Springs before the right front tire blew out (Yeah!!) So Mark changed that tire, we had the full size spare, and we finally were on our way, and made it home without any more mishap!! We pulled in around 3 and went to bed and got the pup settled around 3:30 am. Alarm went off at 5:30. Yay for a new day. Anyways, that was our weekend. We are so very grateful to our family and our friends for coming to help us out when we really needed it. Thank you so much. And we feel so very blessed to not be injured and to have made it out of what could have been a very tragic accident without a scratch and able to make it home safely. We are so very grateful for this. Mark and I were discussing the fact that we have luck, it's not always good luck and it's not always bad luck, but when we have luck we have a lot of it! All we can do it look back and see how blessed we have been in our lives. For this we are very grateful! :) And now... bring on Tuesday! Take care all! Love always, ~ bry and mark
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Wow! That would have been so scary. I am so glad you and Mark are ok.
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