Unbelievable! Yesterday a window blow out, today broken tow hitch - down hill!

Our west coast mission seems to be constantly interrupted. Driving along the highway out of Bunbury and the window on the bus door had a blow out. It just exploded!

So we planned a stop over in Mandurah to have a new piece of glass manufactured when just short of our destination the tow hitch broke - on a down hill slide.

When the ball hitch broke we where going down a very steep hill 1st gear and on and off the brakes. It was under a lot of stress, you can't see how steep it was in the pic's.

So car off, dragged it around the corner then a great guy on a motorbike offered to go home and get us a towball tongue to borrow then another bloke stopped in his Rodeo ute and towed it 700m to the boat ramp for us (absolutely nowhere else to park off the road). Fortunately the local auto shop also open Sunday so Brad off to buy a new hitch! Meanwhile I get some grumpy old bastard complaining that he couldn't reverse in to his "preferred" boat trailer park (bus parked in it) - well buddy choose one of the 15 others available. I (Julie) took great pains to specifically park the bus in the tightest corner furthest from the ramp keeping within 1 park space so as not to intrude.....some people!