So if any of you remember, I took a short trip to Smyrna, GA a couple weeks ago to help an buddy in the Army move down there. We borrowed his dads diesel Super Duty and my grandpas trailer, loaded them up, tarped them down, ratchet strapped, and we were good to go.
On the way down to my house to pick me up the next morning (his old house is 10 minutes from me) the tarps in both the truck and trailer decided to not stay put. We ran to the local hardware store and bought a couple more ratchet straps for the truck. Then we took off.
Then after leaving my town, about 5 minutes down the road, the two large boxes that sat a little higher than the cab of the truck decided to shift positions despite being ratchet strapped rather well. This caused the tarp in the truck to come undone and we pulled over and fixed it, twice. Second time, we got out the duct tape and wrapped the tarp a couple times, repositioned the boxes, restrapped them, and took off again. No problems after that with the truck.
Half way to Indianapolis, the trailer tarp decided to split in half and turn into a huge air brake. Great. That slowed us down and sucked down some extra diesel.
When we stopped for fuel, I looked up Harbor Freight on the phone and found one on the north side and south side of Indy right off the expressway. My buddy wanted to go to the one in the south to make up some time. I was driving, so I told him berkeley that, we're going to the north side one.
We ended up buying a new heavy duty tarp (ON SALE!), a set of four ratchet straps (ON SALE!), and two rolls of duct tape (ON SALE!). We unstrapped everything, repositioned the tarp in the truck, took old tarp off trailer, put new one on trailer, wrapped both tarps tightly in duct tape, restrapped everything, and threw old tarp out.
Got back on the highway and not a single issue the rest of the way down. Despite making up time, we didn't get to Smyrna until about 3 in the morning.
The next morning we decide to take the trailer off the truck to get some breakfast. As I start lowering the trailer jack, it's just barely moving and I'm losing steam trying to lower it. Luckily we had a cinder block handy and we just used that to set the jack on.
We go to breakfast, come back, decide there are too many leaves in the driveway (making it slippery as hell), so I take the rake he brought down, started raking, and proceeded to snap the rake in half. Then we realized we don't have a shop style broom to sweep out the garage (which was in dire need of sweeping). So back to Harbor Freight.
We picked up a new rake, a shop broom, and I happened to find an "A" frame trailer jack.
Luckily for me I brought my tools with, so it was easy to install the new jack.
A couple days later we left and had no issues with our trip back. 
Now for pictures!
My buddies house, I'm actually jealous. He's renting $100 more than I am and it's 2xs the size.
My accommodations
The back yard is huge! The last pic is from the farthest corner of the yard.
Also, I couldn't go south and not stop at the Awful Waffle!
I also got a ride in 1300zuk's new 500.
