Whew!
This was our "chariot" for the trip to Logan.
Top heavy, SLOW, but the seats were a bit
more comfortable than the last Penske truck
we drove from Logan back to Florida...
So there's that!
We left early Wednesday morning and discovered
this truck had a power governor on it so that it
was significantly under powered.
Kyle said it didn't have enough power to
get out of it's own way.
We weren't looking forward to the mountains...
Or the bridges.
But the flat roads of Texas should be fine.
It rained pretty hard leaving Florida, but Kyle was prepared
and had put brand new windshield wipers on before
we left. (He also polished out the foggy headlights...)
The truck had brand new tires, so it was kind of
"floaty" on the road until they got scrubbed in.
Once we got out of the rain we did ok.
Driving across the long bridge into Mobile, Alabama.
We listened to the Harry Potter books on Audible.
It really helped the time go by!
We also discovered the long, straight, flat roads in Texas
aren't actually flat! In fact there is a little bit of a
hill to most of them and our poor truck couldn't manage
more than about 62 mph.
The check engine light came on just as we were pulling
out of Amarillo, TX on Thursday morning and stayed on for a couple of hours
and then turned itself off.
We were glad to see that!
(Kyle pulled over and checked under the hood...
didn't see anything catastrophic so we just motored on.)
It's good to drive with a competent driver!
The rest of the trip was mostly uneventful.
Just SLOW.
We followed a house down the highway in
Mississippi for a bit.
He was even slower than we were, so we eventually
had to pass him.
HAIR RAISING!
But we made it...
Lots of cotton fields ready for harvest.
We started out early every morning and drove late every evening.
Averaged 14-15 hours each day.
And still took a full extra day!
Lots of beautiful countryside though.
Look!
Finally some elevation!
Not a "mountain", but not flat either!
Drove by Hole in the Rock on Friday.
Drove into the clouds on Saturday.
Snow!!!
And more snow!
A terrible picture of some fall colors.
We FINALLY made it into Logan at 12:15 pm.
I know it was 12:15, because we went straight to
Enterprise Rental to pick up our car and they
were CLOSED!
They closed at noon.
We missed them by 15 minutes!
And of course they didn't have an emergency number.
So...
We took the truck to the hotel and got checked in,
left our bags etc in the room and drove over to the
new house. Dropped off the truck, and walked back
to the hotel.
Logan River.
It was .68 of a mile so not a terrible walk.
And then after a bit we walked back over again to make sure
somebody got the truck and the keys (since nobody was
responding to our text messages...)
The son was there so we visited for a bit, got some
fresh apples and pears off their trees and walked
back to the hotel again.
Thank goodness for Uber Eats!
We had them deliver food to our hotel each night.
Except for Friday night in Price - they don't have
Uber Eats in Price yet.
And EVERYTHING was closed, so we ended up
walking to a gas station and getting some Hot Pockets
that we heated in our room microwave.
Stay tuned for the rest of the story!
It finally gets better!
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