Second Star to the Right and Straight on until Morning…
Colorful Colorado
(Or we’re not in Kansas any more)
The state that matches my language today.
Mon Dieu! If you ever find yourself on the US 287 know that you are in for awesome sights, very few gas stations and pack plenty of food.
As for my journey today…
The disagreement I had with my Sat Nav yesterday continued this morning. It ‘cleverly” calculated the time zone change into its arrival time before I even left. So whilst I was merrily expecting a 12 hour drive today, the Sat Nav had its own evil plan. We would hardly be on speaking terms now, expect I have no one else to talk to, and it only deigns to speak once every 300 miles or so anyway. Not that an extra hour between friends is usually a problem, just that I realized this one when I was 70 miles from a gas station, and rather than have 20 minutes to my destination I had an hour and 20 minutes. Panic set in.
However, that was the least of the exciting events for the day; having decided that driving my car was indeed the wise and sensible option to save buying a new one I am now a little concerned that it isn’t going to make it in one piece. The usual whistles and rattles are swiftly dealt with, turn the CD up, open the window and the like. The small scrape and dent is slightly harder to ignore, and is entirely down to me- the graze down the side panel and the dent in the passenger door (now you’re glad you weren’t sat there Zo!) are due to a flying wheel. I understand it is common place to tow a Jeep behind an F250. But I’ve never come across one before in which first the bolt holding the spare wheel in place maliciously throws itself at my windshield, followed by a kamikaze tire launching itself into my door! At least only the car sustained repairable damage.
Oklahoma deserves a mention for being completely mundane and beautifully uneventful. The scenery was magnificent, the weather was frightening energetic, and the tumble weed was just what was needed to make me smile at this point in the trip.
Anyway, 1100 miles down, another 1400 to go….
Salt Lake City tomorrow.
Colorful Colorado
(Or we’re not in Kansas any more)
The state that matches my language today.
Mon Dieu! If you ever find yourself on the US 287 know that you are in for awesome sights, very few gas stations and pack plenty of food.
As for my journey today…
The disagreement I had with my Sat Nav yesterday continued this morning. It ‘cleverly” calculated the time zone change into its arrival time before I even left. So whilst I was merrily expecting a 12 hour drive today, the Sat Nav had its own evil plan. We would hardly be on speaking terms now, expect I have no one else to talk to, and it only deigns to speak once every 300 miles or so anyway. Not that an extra hour between friends is usually a problem, just that I realized this one when I was 70 miles from a gas station, and rather than have 20 minutes to my destination I had an hour and 20 minutes. Panic set in.
However, that was the least of the exciting events for the day; having decided that driving my car was indeed the wise and sensible option to save buying a new one I am now a little concerned that it isn’t going to make it in one piece. The usual whistles and rattles are swiftly dealt with, turn the CD up, open the window and the like. The small scrape and dent is slightly harder to ignore, and is entirely down to me- the graze down the side panel and the dent in the passenger door (now you’re glad you weren’t sat there Zo!) are due to a flying wheel. I understand it is common place to tow a Jeep behind an F250. But I’ve never come across one before in which first the bolt holding the spare wheel in place maliciously throws itself at my windshield, followed by a kamikaze tire launching itself into my door! At least only the car sustained repairable damage.
Oklahoma deserves a mention for being completely mundane and beautifully uneventful. The scenery was magnificent, the weather was frightening energetic, and the tumble weed was just what was needed to make me smile at this point in the trip.
Anyway, 1100 miles down, another 1400 to go….
Salt Lake City tomorrow.
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