Day 3227

 I woke up at 8 and got up for breakfast.  then it was out to hook up.  There was nothing extraordinary about the process and we were on the road a little before 9.

The first 250 miles went pretty smoothly.  The Salt Lake City metropolitan area stretches for almost 100 miles.  That's a long time to be driving a trailer in close proximity to several lanes of cars.  Fortunate traffic was heavy only at times and no one seemed to be on a crusade to be somewhere fast.

One weird thing happened.  The truck did a regen at 335 miles and 60% soot.  I have no idea why.  It was a relatively short one though.

The pain started when we stopped for fuel 150 miles from St. George.  We stopped at a Shell station whose pumps didn't have card readers.  When I went inside they went through this weird explanation where I would have to got to an adjacent pump (where someone was) to turn on the pump I was at.  I said forget that, I'll go to Maverick across the freeway.

Fueling up at Maverick was a breeze.  However, taking a piss wasn't.  The line for the can was out the door.  I said screw it and hit the road.

I had kind of forgotten, but the last 150 miles encompass 3 or 4 6,000+ foot passes.  That's a lot of up and down.  In addition there was a strong headwind.  Strong enough to push the rig around at time.  That caused me to have to slow down for every pass so that I didn't exceed the EGT limit.  It made the last 2.5 hours of the trip very wearing.

We managed to average a little over 60 MPH and 10.0 MPG for the trip.  The headwind killed the mileage, although going a lot of the way at 70 didn't help.

We got to the park a little before 3.  We unhooked and fed the pets.  The rubber trim on the front of the trailer had come loose again.  We taped it back down with Gorilla tape.  When that was done we went to Wally World for Gorilla tape, bar soap, and bananas.  Then it was back home.

When we got home I noticed something stuck under the kitchen slide.  I pulled it out, it was a dead mouse.  Apparently there had been two mice.  This one might have died of eating poison.  I took it out to the dumpster.

We ate at the Black bear restaurant.  It was really good.  I'm glad we went a little early.  When we left the place was full and there was quite a waiting line.  The state games are on again.  The park is full and so are the other parks we passed.

After dinner we fed the pets and took Abby for a walk.  Tomorrow we'll take her to a dog park. The rest of the evening was videos.  I tried to watch a football I quit after about 10 minutes.  There's way too many commercials and ot enough football.