Day 1995

 It snowed last night, about 1.5 to 2 inches of heavy wet snow.  We didn't get up until a quarter to nine for two reasons.  First, we only had 200 miles to go today.  Second, we thought we'd need to wait for the snow to melt.  After pet stuff an breakfast I went outside.  There wasn't any snow on the pavement, but there was some on the ground and a lot on vehicles.  The temperature was 38 degrees.

I really didn't have much to clear off the snow.  I used the "swiffer" to clean the snow off the truck bed cover.  It wasn't a good tool for the task.  The head is on a swivel and kept turning the wrong way.  The heavy snow packed down on the cover and had to be scraped off.

I finally got the bed cover cleared.  I backed up the truck to hook it up and then coiled up the hose.  That was a real pain in the ass because it was stiff, wet, and muddy.  While I was doing that I noticed that the street side slide was all canted when Ellen brought it in.  I had her put it back out.  The problem was the snow on the roof.

I couldn't climb the ladder because of the bike rack.  So I backed up the truck to the slide.  I had to sand on the closed tailgate, which allowed me to just reach up to the roof of the slide.  It took a lot of time and effort to clear the snow off.  Luckily the slide wasn't damaged.

The other two slides had gone in, but their tops were covered with snow.  I had to stand on a chair and use the swiffer and dust pan to clear the snow from the living room slide.  It almost filled the sink.  I did the same with the bedroom slide.

After all of that we managed to hook up and get on the road.  It was about 10.  The trip itself was OK.  The road was wet until Green River.  It hadn't snowed there.  Crap.  There was a whole lot of traffic, mostly trucks, on I80.  The traffic went way down when we were on on I84.

The CTS3 worked well.  I like the new display.  It's nice to have two more PID's also.

We got to Tremonton about 1:30.  We made 12.1 MPG.  It's amazing what a lack of a strong headwind will do for mileage.  There was a little water to mop up in the living room and some seriously wet carpet in the bedroom.  I used the hair dryer on the bedroom floor.  Ellen took the towels to the wash.

We had unhooked, so we went to town for fuel.  We'd used less than half a tank.  There wasn't anything interesting in town, so we just went back to the trailer.

We watched videos (no TV here).  Then we went around the park looking at rigs.  There are some really expensive ones.  The temperature was 60, the warmest we've been in for many days.

Ellen fixed sausage for dinner.  After dinner was more videos.  Tomorrow will be another sleep in day.  We only have 220 miles to go, about the same as today.  We won't have snow to deal with.