Check the bearings

We'd always pull over in Faribault to check the bearings on the trailer when we were driving up north for vacation. Five kids, fewer as they moved away, and Mom and Dad in a station wagon and the tent trailer or the boat trailer loaded with gear, sometimes a canoe on top of the car. The idea was that Faribault was far enough from Owatonna that if something was wrong with the bearings it would have a chance to show itself. I quizzed Dad. Maybe water had gotten into the hub, maybe it wasn't packed correctly and would overheat and then we'd have to replace the axle and that would be really bad. We'd stop the car, Dad would get out and feel the bearings, and they were always cold, which meant they were alright. Then we'd get back in the car and drive to International Falls.