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Not really a walkabout, as I know where I am going, but I leave for the left coast in a couple of days, where I hope to meet old friends, and make some new ones. This is a busy time for me, there are things happening that are making my 'other' job loom into the forefront, which is exciting.
I am taking the '02, because mine is still suffering from hard start problems, and needs a wheel bearing seal looking at. I wish my hands could do more of what my head wanted them to.
Theo
I am taking the '02, because mine is still suffering from hard start problems, and needs a wheel bearing seal looking at. I wish my hands could do more of what my head wanted them to.
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Weather is a fun thing.. I have paper pictures of me, my truck and a blizzard heading over the Sierra Nevada mountains, leading the highway patrol.... I love it, it is just the other folk that worry me.
I have a bit of a tight schedule on the outward, and I am convoying with Wolf on the return, so probably Kansas is out for this trip. Which is annoying, but I am in the really noisy truck this trip - that '02 is way louder than mine.
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I have a bit of a tight schedule on the outward, and I am convoying with Wolf on the return, so probably Kansas is out for this trip. Which is annoying, but I am in the really noisy truck this trip - that '02 is way louder than mine.
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'Should be interesting. I have a compressed sched for the rest of the week - lots to do and only a few days to make it happen.
Next monday is a half workday, then leave begins. Everything needs to be ready...
Next monday is a half workday, then leave begins. Everything needs to be ready...
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What's the betting it starts raining, and we get to San Diego in the first snow storm they have ever had.. 
*theo looks for thick gloves and boots*
*theo looks for thick gloves and boots*
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Just my luck.. I do not like the wet winters... In the north it is ok, you don't get wet, but further south, you get naught but soaked.
I have to wear glasses to see things in front of me, when driving (well, more accurately to identify things - I can see 'em fine) so rain is a pain, cos it wets the glasses, when I get out. My eyes take too long to adjust to seeing things, I can't just take the glasses off, I would fall over things.
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I have to wear glasses to see things in front of me, when driving (well, more accurately to identify things - I can see 'em fine) so rain is a pain, cos it wets the glasses, when I get out. My eyes take too long to adjust to seeing things, I can't just take the glasses off, I would fall over things.
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The last time it snowed in San Diego, it barely even stuck to the ground before it melted. People went nuts for about two or three hours, and then it stopped.
-There were the usual jokes about people from La Jolla running out into their driveways with coke spoons to scrape it all up...
But "REAL" snow actually does happen up in the foothills, and the I-8 passes can be a real nightmare. I am thinking in terms of running north on fifteen to catch forty around L.A. That would be the smartest route, even though it gets mighty windy between L.A. and Flagstaff. I've had a trailer whip on that stretch before, and this one I can't afford to bounce around.
The Cord is a once in a lifetime shot for me, but it's also an irreplaceable historic artifact that it would be criminal of me to endanger. In a way, I'm glad the C-6 in "Not for Hire" (or "Down Brownie", or "Bruin"...) kind of limits the speed on the run. I wouldn't want to go over 55 for this trip, and that is the exact speed the truck was built for.
-There were the usual jokes about people from La Jolla running out into their driveways with coke spoons to scrape it all up...
But "REAL" snow actually does happen up in the foothills, and the I-8 passes can be a real nightmare. I am thinking in terms of running north on fifteen to catch forty around L.A. That would be the smartest route, even though it gets mighty windy between L.A. and Flagstaff. I've had a trailer whip on that stretch before, and this one I can't afford to bounce around.
The Cord is a once in a lifetime shot for me, but it's also an irreplaceable historic artifact that it would be criminal of me to endanger. In a way, I'm glad the C-6 in "Not for Hire" (or "Down Brownie", or "Bruin"...) kind of limits the speed on the run. I wouldn't want to go over 55 for this trip, and that is the exact speed the truck was built for.
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Well 55 mph will get fantastic fuel mileage in the '02. The 40 is the best route - the only bad bit anywhere is Flagstaff, and if we hit that late in the day, we should be fine.
Oklahoma is cold.. always is in winter, with a lazy wind that tries to go right through you. I don't like hanging about there.
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Oklahoma is cold.. always is in winter, with a lazy wind that tries to go right through you. I don't like hanging about there.
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I never plan a trip. I have what I need, and can deal with that, but stops are all too often impossible to keep in a schedule. in the distance we have to travel there are too many variables to figure how far we will get any given day. Accidents slow a freeway for miles/
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It suddenly occurs to me that I don't know if I have a current Atlas around here...
Any state park should do. If I had already built an RV or added a sleeper onto a truck it would be moot, since I could pull off anywhere.
Any state park should do. If I had already built an RV or added a sleeper onto a truck it would be moot, since I could pull off anywhere.
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It is annoying that I cannot use my truck for this trip - having the bed in it is really cool. The '02 is a short bed, so the camper won't fit. Buying that little bed is a mistake I will never repeat again. You can't get anything in a short bed.. ugh.
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