{"id":92,"date":"2011-10-26T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/hello-from-evergreen-co-6\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:17:00","slug":"hello-from-evergreen-co-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Evergreen, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHello from Evergreen, CO<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nWednesday afternoon
\nOctober 26, 2011 (eight travelogue of this trip).<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nWell, as you can see from
\nthe title, we are home. As I write this, there is about 8-10 inches
\nof snow on the deck and it is predicted to snow most of the day.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nI wanted to comment about
\nthe Wal Mart in Topeka. After it got dark we noticed a large neon
\nsign in front of the coach (all we could see from the windshield was
\nthe end of the sign). I went out to investigate, and it was a great
\nlooking sign marking the site of the Chief Drive-In Movie Theater
\n(see photo). Apparently, they built this store on the drive-in movie
\nsight and left the great sign. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n Great Looking Neon Sign in front<\/div>\n
\nof the Topeka Wal Mart<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nMonday night we stayed in
\nthe Wal Mart in Goodland, KS. We have stayed there before and it has
\npretty good parking and ease of entry.\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nYesterday we left right at
\nsun rise to make sure that we would beat the storm. They had
\npredicted it would not hit until the evening, but you just never
\nknow. We got here at about 11:00 AM \u2013 plenty of time to unload and
\npark the bus in the shop. I elevated the bus with the jacks and have
\nit sitting of jack stands so that I can do some work underneath and
\nin the lower bays (more comfortable working position) over the
\nwinter.\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThat is the good news.
\nThe bad news will be detailed in a minute.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nPeriodically I present a
\nsummary of our travels in the bus. The bus made it’s inaugural trip
\nin March of 2006. Since that time we have driven it over 65,000
\nmiles, through 27 states and have stayed in the bus 716 nights.\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThis trip covered close to
\n3100 miles and we were on the road 41 days. The bus performed very
\nwell. We had one minor incident in IA where the charge air cooler
\nhose came off. It took about 15 minute to get it secured back in
\nplace. Other than that, we had no problems.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nNow for the bad news. As
\nmost of you know we tow a rather heavy service truck behind the bus.
\nAbout a mile from the house, the hitch broke and the truck swerved
\nfrom side to side quite a bit. It could not have happened in a worse
\nspot, as the truck swerved into the ditch and the right front wheel
\nhit a big rock and tore up the front end pretty good. I lost a tire,
\na high dollar aftermarket wheel and at least two of the control arms.
\n Because of the snow, I can’t inspect for further damage. My guess
\nis that it will be several hundred dollars to repair \u2013 with me
\ndoing the work. Long ago, I converted to very robust safety chains,
\nand the kept the truck from breaking away from the bus.\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nFunny thing was, I had
\njust added to my to-do list, an item for me to thoroughly check all of
\nthe hitch components over the winter.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nAs a side note, I have a
\nbunker where I store the trash bags until I can take them to the
\ndump. It is pretty darn secure, as the walls are made of railroad
\nties and the top is made with 2X6 boards. When I walked around back
\nit was fairly obvious that a bear had ripped the boards off and dug
\nthrough the trash. What a mess. There have been several reports of
\nbears in the area. We are careful not to have any food in the trash,
\nbut they probably smelled the food containers containers (we even
\nrinse them out, but their powerful sense of smell tells them that
\nfood is\/was present. It will be interesting to see if they come
\nback.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThat is all for this trip.<\/div>\n

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