A quick update on Rosie’s condition. After the dramatic conclusion, I pulled the spark plugs, drained any remaining water I could find, and charged the battery over night. In the morning, she fired right up. I spent the day catching up on work and stuff here at home. That evening, I went back down to the garage and gave Rosie … Read More
My last day of the trip. Since I wouldn’t be traveling through anywhere too hot, I decided to take my time. I got some breakfast and chatted with Bill, an octogenarian visiting Durango from Arizona with his wife and their ATV. We talked cars for a while before his wife hustled him off to breakfast. As I got on … Read More
This day was one I had been looking forward to since I started planning the trip. Monument Valley is one of the most spectacular drives in the country. It’s even better in a convertible. I started my day early to avoid the heat. I left Flagstaff before the sun rose. As it came up, I got a spectacular sunrise, … Read More
Last night was my midnight sprint across the desert. I left Lewis and Clark’s house a little after 11:00 pm. The temperature was 94°. It was warm, but without the sun, it was bearable. A couple of spritzes from my spray bottle would cool me down enough to give me a slight chill. Since there’s not much you can … Read More
Today represented a deviation from my original planned route. There is a heatwave going on in the southwest, and instead of temperatures that would, at worst, peek into the low 100s, it is now up into the 120s in some places along my planned route. So I had to make a new plan: Drive at night. The problem with … Read More
Shelby and I spent our last full day together touring San Diego. We started the day having breakfast with her cousin and her family. They had an event in Los Angeles scheduled, and had to leave for that, so we were on our own. The first thing we had to do was to drive over the Coronado bridge with the … Read More
The Queen Mary is really cool! We had breakfast aboard the ship and then went exploring for a few hours. In keeping with the theme of Legos from Seattle, they even had a Lego scale model of the ship, using a quarter of a million bricks. The engine room was particularly interesting. The main thrust bearing for the engine … Read More
Our main goal for the day was to get on the road early and avoid the heat we ran into the day before. We ate breakfast in the car, and headed for the coast, getting there before the mercury rose too high. The road we took out was different than the one we’d taken in, and spit us out … Read More
Today was the first day that Shelby was with me. We had a blast, rocking out to the playlist we made for our road trip to Cleveland six months ago. Almost a year ago, I installed a new stereo in the car, a modern unit with retro styling. For months it worked great, but in the past few months, … Read More
Today, I took the easy way out. Still fatigued from yesterday’s drive along the coast, and with plenty of coast ahead of me, I opted to sleep in, and make the drive to San Francisco on the usual route, Highway 101, instead of returning to the coast. This halved my travel time, giving me enough buffer to stop and … Read More