| Trip report. Larry and Lucy's Great Adventure!! [message #110384] |
Fri, 31 December 2010 14:36  |
Larry
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Menomonie, WI
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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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