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| Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110384] |
Fri, 31 December 2010 14:36  |
Larry
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Left home last Wednesday the 29th. Ran into almost white-out conditions south of Mpls on I90. Turned south on I35 and proceeded to buck a head wind for the next 900 miles. Yup...that's 900mi!! Gas milage is in the toilet. Most of Wednesday and Thursday was spent traveling in very light rain...mist...and fog. Usually when there is wind, there isn't fog. But the warm moist air out of the south over the snow cover made for a general foggy condition, just enough to wet the road. Many of the portions of I35 were newly paved asphalt. That mixed with the light rain made an awful mess on the coach. When we finally got out of the rain and fog, the coach was almost black from the coating of crap....ON MY NEW PAINT. Stopped at Eisenhower State Park south of Topeka KS the first night. Beautiful park, we were the only ones there. Second night in Elk City, Oklahoma. Nice city park here on a lake. Flat paved sites with electricity...no charge....not even a donation box. Again, we are the only one here. We spent two hours this morning in a Truck Wash scrubbing that black $%it off! You should have seen the towd....couldn't see out of the windows it was so bad. Another half hour on that. Broke an air line to the drivers side bag, and it let the coach down to the ground just before pulling out to go to the truck wash. Took about an hour, but fixed it. Also one mud flap was flopping around in the breeze. Gotta find some bigger screws to refasten that. Yesterday it was 75* here. Cold front came through last night. Very windy noisy night with some rain. Today the temp now is 35* with forecast to go to 17* tonight. We will stay here through tomorrow. Lucy wants to see the Badgers play in the rosebowl and we have good HD reception here. Our next stop will be Catum NM in a small city park. We find a lot of overnight places on "Freecampgrounds.com. Then on to Riverside CA area with a stop at some friends home on the way.
So far the coach is performing flawlessly.
TTYL
Larry 
78 Royale w/500 Caddy
Menomonie, WI.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110404 is a reply to message #110384] |
Fri, 31 December 2010 16:44  |
Steven Ferguson
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Where the heck in NM is that?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Larry <weidnerl@wwt.net> wrote:
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> Left home last Wednesday the 29th. Ran into almost white-out conditions
> south of Mpls on I90. Turned south on I35 and proceeded to buck a head wind
> for the next 900 miles. Yup...that's 900mi!! Gas milage is in the toilet.
> Most of Wednesday and Thursday was spent traveling in very light
> rain...mist...and fog. Usually when there is wind, there isn't fog. But the
> warm moist air out of the south over the snow cover made for a general foggy
> condition, just enough to wet the road. Many of the portions of I35 were
> newly paved asphalt. That mixed with the light rain made an awful mess on
> the coach. When we finally got out of the rain and fog, the coach was
> almost black from the coating of crap....ON MY NEW PAINT. Stopped at
> Eisenhower State Park south of Topeka KS the first night. Beautiful park,
> we were the only ones there. Second night in Elk City, Oklahoma. Nice city
> park here on a lake. Flat paved sites with electricity...no charge....not
> even a donation box. Again, we are
> the only one here. We spent two hours this morning in a Truck Wash
> scrubbing that black $%it off! You should have seen the towd....couldn't
> see out of the windows it was so bad. Another half hour on that. Broke an
> air line to the drivers side bag, and it let the coach down to the ground
> just before pulling out to go to the truck wash. Took about an hour, but
> fixed it. Also one mud flap was flopping around in the breeze. Gotta find
> some bigger screws to refasten that. Yesterday it was 75* here. Cold front
> came through last night. Very windy noisy night with some rain. Today the
> temp now is 35* with forecast to go to 17* tonight. We will stay here
> through tomorrow. Lucy wants to see the Badgers play in the rosebowl and we
> have good HD reception here. Our next stop will be Catum NM in a small city
> park. We find a lot of overnight places on "Freecampgrounds.com. Then on to
> Riverside CA area with a stop at some friends home on the way.
>
> So far the coach is performing flawlessly.
>
> TTYL
> --
> Larry :)
> 78 Royale w/500 Caddy
> Menomonie, WI.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110532 is a reply to message #110529] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 20:39 |
Steven Ferguson
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Larry,
If you don't, we will be sore....
I sent directions in a previous email and I don't think you got it
I-40 to I-25 South. Stay on dthat to Hatch, NM. Take 26 to Deming, pick up
I-10 W from there. I-10 to Exit 302. 90 S for about 26 miles, at the E
gate of Ft. Huachuca, go straight on Buffalo Soldier Trail. Stay on that to
Cherokee, turn right. About a mile later, turn right on E. Suma Dr. It
takes a sharp L and becomes S. Wenro Dr. I am the last house on the L.
Loong driveway, pull in there and we will get you hooked up and leveled.
520-803-0220, call when you get close.
take care,
Steve
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Larry <weidnerl@wwt.net> wrote:
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> Sorry, misspelled that...it is Tatum NM on HWY 380 about 8o mi east of
> Roswell. Small city park with free FULL hook-ups, and WIFI. Someone near
> me has an open network and I'm using it! The mirror on my drivers side Ramco
> just...fell off on Hwy 380 today. Gad! bad luck...good luck.
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> So Steve, are you home? Can we stop at your place?
> Larry :)
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| Re: Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110536 is a reply to message #110387] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 21:06 |
Bob de Kruyff
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| WD0AFQ wrote on Fri, 31 December 2010 13:51 |
Larry, I would get off 40 before getting to Az. if you can. South is good.
Dan,
Also sent you an email
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I just got back from Michigan today. I picked up a new truck at our Novi plant, loaded up the rest of my crap still in storage and headed west. Things got dicey around Springfield and got worse after that. I-40 was closed East of Albuqerque so I took snow covered secondary roads south to Las Cruces and then West on I-10. The hotels were full from people who got stuck there the day before. Well I made it back but the truck looks 5 years old already!
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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| Re: Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110537 is a reply to message #110533] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 21:17 |
Don A
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<<Larry wrote on Sat, 01 January 2011 20:44
OK Steve... Will call when we get close.
It'll be good to see you two. Larry >>
Larry
Sounds like a great adventure, Larry. We go through Tatum several times each year. Few of us are as verbal as Dan G, but I wish the Net had more reports of fun/successful trips in the GMC.
You have probably seen the White Sands, but if you have time, you might check out the cat walk in the Gila National Wilderness on the way to Sierra Vista. A lot different than the scenery around Tatum.
Check out Carl S' pix from his trip to see Jeff and the Gila Forest.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=35200&title=silver-city-trip&cat=5554
Don Adams Dallas, TX
'76 26' Glenbrook, '90 Sidekick
rebuilt by R Archer, powered by J Bounds, Koba
[IMG]http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6109/G2.jpg[/IMG]
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| Re: Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110545 is a reply to message #110537] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 23:46 |
hal kading
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Larry,
Sounds like you will be coming through Las Cruces on US 70. We've got a place at the airport (I-10 exit 132) where you can plug in for the night. WiFi, water and a place to dump also. Give me a call when you get close.
five seven five five two four eight zero four seven. After 5PM
five seven five five two four two two nine four.
Hal Kading 78 Buskirk Stretch Las Cruces NM
Hal Kading 1978 Buskirk Stretch 502 Las Cruces NM
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| Re: [GMCnet] Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110551 is a reply to message #110537] |
Sun, 02 January 2011 06:38 |
Steven Ferguson
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The only thing bad about White Sands is you can't take a picture of it:>)
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Don Adams <dj.adams@att.net> wrote:
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> <<Larry wrote on Sat, 01 January 2011 20:44
> OK Steve... Will call when we get close.
> It'll be good to see you two. Larry >>
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> Larry
> Sounds like a great adventure, Larry. We go through Tatum several times
> each year. Few of us are as verbal as Dan G, but I wish the Net had more
> reports of fun/successful trips in the GMC.
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> You have probably seen the White Sands, but if you have time, you might
> check out the cat walk in the Gila National Wilderness on the way to Sierra
> Vista. A lot different than the scenery around Tatum.
>
> Check out Carl S' pix from his trip to see Jeff and the Gila Forest.
>
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=35200&title=silver-city-trip&cat=5554
> --
> Don
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| Re: Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110757 is a reply to message #110756] |
Tue, 04 January 2011 00:11 |
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Great, I expect to hook up with yall in Quartzsite. May get to run into you along the way back east. My last stop will also be the convention in La.
Enjoy the sites. Southern California is a pretty place to visit.
Dan
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mi east of Roswell. Small city park with free FULL hook-ups, and WIFI. Someone near me has an open network and I'm using it! The mirror on my drivers side Ramco just...fell off on Hwy 380 today. Gad! bad luck...good luck.