We also used the Mountain Directory which is a $10 app that gives detailed instructions on passes and other dangerous road conditions. We also used it as our main navigation tool (along with a map) when traveling through Canada, and we really like the warnings for curves and steep downgrades when traveling in the mountains. There are lots of low bridges in New England where we started out and we never had an issue. I know some people travel without them, but numerous times we have found them invaluable. As you can see here it was a pretty clear line where it endedĪnd I should say here that our Rand McNally RV GPS was a lifesaver. On the way back down we passed back out of the fog. That made us both feel a little better, and it really felt like we had accomplished something! When we got to the bottom a local came and talked to Lee and told him it was the second worst pass in Colorado. Extreme grades can do funny things to your mileage calculations, and Lee felt pretty confident based on the mechanical line gauge we were fine. Oh, and did I mention the gas light came on when we were coming down and I was crazy nervous about that? When we pulled into the gas station in Poncha Springs it said we had 9 miles left, but we actually had 4 gallons in the tank. It was the difficulty of the road as much as how long it was, and the terrible visibility at the top didn’t help. Lee was amazing, driving carefully along a ten mile stretch of highway with numerous 35 mph curves and a 6% grade and although I have absolute confidence in his driving it was nerve wracking. Everything was good until we got close to the top of the pass and then it was total fog. Plus the higher we climbed the more trees were in fall color and the aspens were really lovely. The forecast called for rain and the closer we got to Monarch Pass the cloudier it was, but thankfully it only sprinkled a little. Still it was pretty, the sun was mostly shining, and the stop we made for a quick lunch was absolutely breathtaking. We love using secondary highways and this definitely gave us a chance to do that, although it was slow going in spots due to construction taking the road down to one lane. Plus, $35 is $35, and that took the purchase down to $33 in our minds.įinally we were back on the road and headed towards Poncha Springs and the drive along Highway 50 was really pretty. Hey, I admire his stick-to-it-ness, but I really just wanted to get on the road and was really happy when they finally figured it out. Unfortunately, we couldn’t figure out how to get it out of the account, and Lee spent over 20 minutes at Walmart with associates and ultimately on the phone with tech support before we could get the money. Yep crazy right, but it seems to work and we had $35 sitting in an account. Plus Lee has been participating in a Walmart Savings program that Cori told us about where you download their app and scan your receipts and the computer knows when you are paying more for an item than somewhere else locally and refunds you the difference. Thankfully they had 1 left and we actually already owned the hose we would need so only ended up spending $68. And let me be super clear here, this is NOT something you should try unless you are familiar with all of the risks, but in our case with a broken furnace and heading to near freezing temperatures at night we decided we would give it a try. They are so popular because they “sip” propane and are much more efficient than a regular furnace, but neither Lee or I was ever that crazy about having a propane heater in the rig. They are small propane heaters that you can put inside your rig, and then you put a hose through a window (leaving it open a little for fresh air to get in) to the propane tank outside. We first learned about these when we were boondocking in Quartzsite and many of the folks who boondocked a lot swore by them. We made one quick stop first and picked up a Mr. As bummed as we were about missing Moab, we were crazy excited to be seeing our friends in Colorado, and since we only had a three hour drive we headed out bright and early.
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