Bill’s Blog on the River

Despite the late start today at bit past noon, just pulled in to the rest area in Walsenburg, CO, about 10:15 PM.  Temperature is 21 degrees and except for the roadway everything is covered in about 6 inches of snow.  Oscar and Jake aren’t too thrilled about that.  I let them out as soon as we stopped, they went about two feet in the snow, turned around and headed back to the coach.  Guess they really are Palm Springs dogs afterall.  Got a feeling I’m going to wake up in the morning and find a couple of surprises for me.  After I finish this update I’ll let them back out again and see if I can get lucky.

Today I made a total of 572 miles.  Average MPG, according to the computer was 6.4 and my average MPG was 69.2.  Kinda nice when you are traveling through Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado and the speed limits are 75 mph.  Guess you could say I was clipping along.

Tomorrow I will hopefully get an early start and head for Hastings, NE where I’ll meet up with my  daughter Brandy, husband Tom and my granddaughter, Sam.  Sam turned 1 year old yesterday on the 12th.  Will only be there one night and then have to get to head out to make my way over to Nappanee, IN to the Newmar factory to drop off the coach for some needed repairs. 

John and I separate today in Albuquerque.  He stayed straight on I-40 and made it to Amarillo, TX about the same time I got here.  He will continue on to Delaware in the truck to get the furniture back in the house.

As cold as it is here, and from what I hear, east of here, makes you wonder what I’m doing leaving Palm Springs this time of year.  I’m still trying figure that out.  Anyway, here’s a photo of the house in Seaford.  When I left temps were in the low 70’s during the day, grass was nice and green and flowers were blooming.

Hopefully, I’ll get a chance tomorrow to take some photos on the road.  According to Mapquest, I still have 575 miles to go to get to Hastings so let’s hope I don’t run in to any snow.

Back at’cha tomorrow,

Bill

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