Day 3792

 We woke up at 7.  I had breakfast and then went outside to hook up.  That process went well and we were on the road before 8.

This was the best Tucson to Boulder (or similar) trip that we've ever had.  We had a tailwind for the first half of the trip and got 13 mpg.  We got 11.3 for the whole trip.  The trip up to Phoenix was smooth sailing.  We did run into traffic once I10 turned west, but it wasn't too bad.  303 had more traffic than I'd seen before, but again it wasn't too bad.

Of course as soon as we got on 60 things got a little painful.  There was a box truck that kept passing me and slowing down.  I'd pass him and he'd speed up to pass me again.  At one point he sped up so he could box me in behind a semi.  I managed to get in front of him and cut him off in the process.  I got back in the right lane and he pulled up next to me.  I flopped him off and drove his speed (70) until we got to Wickenburg.  He turned off there.

Wickenburg is a real pain in the ass and always will be.  It has 7 traffic circles on the highway.  Once we were back them everything became a lot more pleasant.  A lot of the road was resurfaced and there were no traffic problems.  The construction on I10 in Kingman is ongoing.  The road down the hill to the turnoff is a war zone.

The road to the dam is a crappy section, followed by and OK section, followed by a less crappy section.  There wasn't much traffic, so I drove down the middle of the road in the crappy section.  We made good time over all and were in Boulder before 2.

It was 104 in Boulder.  This is becoming a standard.  We set up with no problems.  Then I went to the hardware store for a couple of small items.  After that we stopped for a root beer float at A&W followed by filling up the truck.  Then it was back to the trailer to hide out from the heat.

Ellen fixed chicken and noodles for dinner.

I spent the afternoon and evening on videos and surfing.

Intel keeps going up.  Our stock is now worth $4.5.  Ellen looked into taxes if we sell some.  We can only sell about $50K before we're in the next tax bracket.