The rain came… we waited all Saturday for rain. Actually we didn’t wait as we did make it to the Art thing downtown but didn’t make the 10 run as we had in years past. I was busy getting a few things ready for a long trip.
We picked up a few things here.
They had some music warming up…
Lots of artsy stuff… I think we got enough junk at home…
Yesterday morning we hit the road with normal first stop in Perry for a quick breakfast and as we turned in I spotted the unusual… Tesla station… First one I have seen in these parts..
They need a lot of them as they only go a few hundred miles on a charge but what do you do when it is charging? Hummm…
And it was raining pretty good going north but when I came up on this guy driving backwards as fast as he was I got a bit worried? turns out it was being towed. Still in the rain at first site… not what you would expect to see.
We moved right on along and in Kansas the rain dropped down so it was not too bad. filled up at normal in Salina with potty breaks and off to the west on I-70. As soon as we got started west I noticed a couple of these types of trucks headed east…
Then as we got closer to Colorado there were more and more of them. I guess they had figured the big snow was going to cause a lot of damage and turned out to not be as bad as predicted still they had prepared and called in hundreds of helpers from all over and we kept seeing them in 2’s and 4’s headed back east. We also saw a lot of Uncle Jakes trucks headed both ways. I guess he was selling a lot of furniture cause his trucks were on the road.
We didn’t start to see any snow till about Flagler. I remember living in a 18ft RV back in the day in Flagler… actually had to finally break down and rent a place as I couldn’t keep the trailer warm.
As we passed Limon it got heavier and heavier…
Although no snowing now it had put down a lot of snow..
Guess several were not prepared for heavy wet snow and hit some bad spots… lucky it didn’t go on through to other side or totally roll over.
Arrived in Denver with no problems and the traffic was not bad for the cross town run… but hey it is late on Sunday… good timing along with the other things…
Still noticed a lot of vehicles with plenty of snow on top… so it was plenty deep and plenty wet to be stacked that high and not coming off.
Saw this up front of me at one point and it struck me that Mom and Dad always used to refer to Chasing our Tail but that meant they were running in circles and getting nothing done in a hurry… I feel that way a lot of the time.
Got in and enjoyed a nice meal (some green chili – not great but very welcome) and being wiped, I hit the sack for lights out.
Oh, and one small issues with the drive up… when we stopped in Salina for gas, the damn auto gas door wouldn’t open… being cold, windy, wet, etc. I just pried it open and filled up but of course prying it open was not real good on the latch system and I knew I would have to do it at least one more time before we got to our end point… but stupid me didn’t think to have Sherrie check the owners manual till, after the second fill up that there must be some alternatives… hummm… well yes there are some. It is a fuse controlled systems so maybe the fuse was out and in the book, it says there is a small lever in the trunk to pull to open the door. Well when we got to the end point and unloaded the trunk I went back and found that lever and sure enough it works fine if you pull that little tab… so since it was warm out I got up to the fuse box and tried to figure out which fuse might be blown… in the book it is #8. Ok which is number 8? I can’t see with my glasses and can’t see with out in close proximity like under the dash, so I guessed at two fuses, pulled them and they were fine? that didn’t make sense? I put them back in and hit the button and poof it works? My only alternative is that somehow we had packed stuff up so that the little lever would not release… not likely as it is behind a covered area … or it just was not making contact before and all the removing and replacing fixed that? still not sure why by since I was there I did a little pushing, bending and poof fixed the gas door so that it looks perfect again and still works… for now?
More and lesser plans are for the rest of the week as we chauffer and shuffle the kids while their parents are off on a late Christmas trip (they say).
WD0AJG