Heading North

Today was the big day.  We cleared out the old freezer and defrosted it and unplugged it yesterday.  Today we cleared out and unplugged the refrigerator.  Then the drama really began. 

May has been wet.  There MIGHT have been as many as 3 days without rain this month - in Denver.  At our place, by the time I realized it was noteworthy, I couldn't remember IF we had any days without rain.  Very possibly not.  It probably started raining in late April and hasn't stopped yet.  And a lot of those days had some snow, too.

I mention this because when we came home from the Shake Down cruise, Tom tried to park the motorhome partway on the driveway.  Unfortunately the low spot is low enough that to level it, at least on corner was left with the tires off the ground.  Not good.  So, it went in the low spot.  And, when he tried to pull out so we could hook on the Honda, it wouldn't move.  I just spun tires and slung mud.  Tom put plywood in front and back of the rear tires.  It would touch the edge and spin and sling.  I was about the call our friend and neighbor to ask his help, when wife came over, saw what was going on and offered to go get him.

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They brought over some gravel and I went down to town for a couple bags of kitty litter.  It took 4 people, the plywood, the gravel the kitty litter and anchoring the plywood to get the Spotted Dog out of the driveway.  We ARE going to fill that low spot with gravel.  No question about it.

 

Video by Leigh BD

Once we were on the road things went much better.  I detoured to fill my gas tank and we met at the first pass of the trip - Willow Creek Pass.  Tom pulled over and had a snack during his short wait.

 

Of course we encountered rain.  It looks like Wyoming has had the same wet weather as Colorado - it's really strange to see water between the sagebrush and full, running rivers.  And, of course, it's raining pretty good right now as I write this.

We also saw a couple of pretty scary things.  Luckily, they were both on the other side of the freeway.  There was a truck making an awful sound - worse than when they've been running on a flat dually tire and it's flopping an shredding.  I glanced in the rear view mirror thinking tire and what I saw suggested he'd run flat so long it was his wheel that was disintegrating - it looked sort of like when a big chunk of snow hits the pavement and explodes.  But there was no snow, no accumulated ice on any of the vehicles on the road.  The other one, was also sad.  There was an Airstream motorhome that was folded in the middle and had a big hole right in front of the door.  Tom thinks it may have hit the guard rail.  When I saw it I thought that being metal it came out of it better than a fiberglass unit - one like ours would probably have disintegrated instead of folding like that.

So much for the first day of what should be an interesting summer.  We'll be living in less than 300 square feet all summer.  We've done it for a month, so it shouldn't be any kind of problem.

To be continued.