An overview: Fuel stops; Tuesday Fallon and Ely, Wednesday Scipio and Palisade, Westcliffe Thursday, numb and dulled as background radiation throughout a hot and trying trip.
Wednesday left Wall with
Frog Pond filling after
a last breakfast and
AC which failed forty minutes out;
mid-nineties by Nixon.
By Fallon we realized that running with windows open, though stressful, was less life-threatening than the bugs-in-a-jar-in-the-sun effect, so continued that way for the dur-ation.
Austin then
Bob Scott Summit, a brief welcome windless respite for lunch,
then
more of the same to
Ely and finally the Border, 6:30 [still mid-nineties, but cool inside].
Morning,
east…
so east; Sevier Lake, Scipio, etc…
After Salina onto 70 and the Lone Tree exit* for dogs’ sakes,
Green River for ill-advised “fish tacos”**
and finally Glenwood Springs
for more fortuitous comidas in the [most welcome] rain, dogs welcome.
Thursday, last day, threatened closures turned to panic in the early morning rain after seeing eastbound traffic backed up for miles but once we turned around it turned out
to just be the Aspen commute…the pouring rain nonetheless made for sketchy beginnings
until the Interstate left the canyon around Gypsum. We veered off onto 24, which
proved precipitous in its climb out of Minturn but after
an eventual circumnavigation of Leadville things became flat, increasingly unattractive
and holiday trafficked; Buena Vista, Salida for groceries, last gas in Westcliffe and, wrung out,
the Huerfano where after Linda got the utilities going and I carried in what I could
dear neighbors unloaded the weightier stuff as well as sweeping the house before leaving us to unpack and collapse by turns. Despite all, still better off than last year…
{Quick question to anyone receiving these; when notified do you get image and text in your inbox or only text? Should be both…like this one should have the Border Motel interior. Need to know as I’m not getting them…}
*I’ve looked on several occasions; nary a tree, lone or not.
**Very decent battered cod which would have been brilliant as the fish in fish and chips but anomalous in a wettish tortilla with some exceedingly strange accoutrements.
This morning the email did not have the motel interior pic. Clicking the blue box then has text and pictures. The motel interior is brilliant and gawd awful at the same time!. S.
I receive this email on both of my addresses, and on each platform (Mac Mail and Yahoo Mail) I received the text, along with an image of feet in the foreground with a sink on the horizon. The image came through on both an iMac desktop and an Android phone.
Mine didn’t have the photo, just a blank box where it should be. The text was there & the link worked fine.
Glad you made it safely to Colorado. Have a great summer. Enjoy the rain.
I receive both photo and text.
Blog came as it always does. Have to click on “read the full post ” to get to the goods. Motel and feet came along within the missive.
Glad you two made it with no further mishaps like losing AC. And rain! Almost makes up for no AC? Send some west, please.
The iMac received text and photo but the footsie image didn’t show up on the iPhone.
What a sweltering drive! Reminds me of the fifties.
I have the same reaction/memories. we hung a burlap bag of water in front of the radiator to ( I think) avoid overheating the engine.
I did not get images in either email.
— xo, Sandy
If you mean no images in the blog proper that’s a whole new twist; seems the notification is inconsistent across the board…some get it, some don’t.
Yes to the motel interior and I’m pretty sure all of the rest of the photos (deeply enjoyed as usual), and the text seemed complete, in that the narrative seemed complete.
These are all way beyond just welcome.
Thanks for the mention of the Bob Scott summit and campground out of Austin. Lots of memories there, and no more trips to Bonneville….
Toes
Just like Ann: No footsie image on iPhone, but it did show up on my MacBook.
Doing volunteer work for retirees I got frustrated after spending tons of time getting documents to look just right only to have them mangled by recipients’ differing email programs or platforms. It was one of the reasons I ultimately retired from that work.
My advice: don’t worry about it. Everyone will put up with the hiccups to read your blog.
Of course, if ALL your photos fail to load, then that would be a big problem!
Glad you survived the desert heat, the flash floods on I-70 and the boring landscapes from Leadville to Salida (at least the blue HalfMoon sign was a bit of relief). I hope you recover from those pesky injuries, get the truck’s AC fixed and enjoy the rain.
Howdy loves–Michael, am seeing the preview image!
Enjoy the look through and read as always.
Warmest always (no pun intended after those temps).
C.
Got the footsie when I pushed “show remote content”. I hope you don’t have to drive back to Cali without A/C
I don’t see “show remote content” but L did get the AC fixed…turned out the clutch blew in the compressor [somewhat unheard of!] compromising the whole system…we wouldn’t survive a trip to Pueblo without it, let alone that long-in-the future return west.