We had a great night sleep in Kincaid state park. Mikes fix seems to have worked and the tank is no longer leaking but we found another problem.

As we left camp this morning it started to rain. No big deal, we thought. We’re in a campervan, we’ll stay dry. But then Mike turned on his wipers and nothing happened. Well this can’t be good.

He popped the bonnet to have look but couldn’t see anything obvious. But when he closed the bonnet, they started working! Weird.

So we’re driving down the road and it starts raining heavier, and the wipers decided to stop again. We arrived in a small town not too far away and we found a garage on the outskirts.

We opened the door to the garage and a thick haze of smoke enveloped us. Three people sat there staring at us like we’d just parked our spaceship out the front.

I said hello and explained our wiper problem to them. They continued to stare blankly. Then Mike spoke and they seemed to understand him but no one made a move to help us. I guess it was chucking it down with rain and we’d clearly crashed their smoko.

After a while, one of the guys got up, put his coat on, and went outside to take a look. He fiddled with a few things and voila, the wipers were working again! He didn’t want payment, so we thanked him and were on our way.

We drove for a good hour with the wipers working, then one of them stopped. Thankfully it was on my side and Mike’s was still working. Just as well too as it began to chuck it down, fork lightning cracking in front of us.

Then my phone started making a scary noise. I looked down and saw it was a tornado warning in the area and to find shelter asap. But we were in the middle of nowhere!

After about 15 minutes we arrived at the red river gorge visitor centre and waited there with a few other people also seeking shelter. We also got the information we wanted on the hikes in the area.

We are camping at whittleton campground and plan to do some hikes over the next few days in the gorge.