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| Sundown in Eastern AZ |
Our trip across the country was fairly uneventful until we
got to California .
But before I share that event I would like to share some comments, ideas,
thoughts, whatever you care to call them is okay with me that come to mind
after this trip:
- Four wheelers (car drivers) please don’t slam on your brakes when approaching an exit, playing with your GPS, phone or whatever else it is you find necessary to play with while driving down the road. We do not wish to kill you but you must remember it takes football fields to stop a semi; semis do not stop on a dime.
- Semi drivers please turn on your four ways when you drop down to 30 miles an hour on perfectly flat roads, this happened not once, not twice but three times. Vince and other drivers would prefer not to kill you, me or themselves when trying to deal with you and other traffic
- Construction workers please do not put barrels/cones a ¼ or a 1/3 into the clear/travel lane and expect cars and semis not to pick them off and send them flying. We did not do so but others did and the shoulders were no picnic so we could understand why and how it happened.
- Construction workers in AZ please check each day to see what your sign says about which lane is closed, and if you are not going to do so, please don’t get all pissy with traffic and dramatically signal at people that they are in the wrong lane and need to suddenly get over. Think Think Think! Why is everyone in the left lane when the left lane is closed?
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| Bridge in CT |
So now onto our event travelling into California ,
shortly after you enter California on I-40
from Arizona
there is a check point everyone must stop at.
Vince always shows the California Official his bill of lading, he/she
reviews it and we go on our way.
Yesterday the young man while reviewing the Bill of Lading asked Vince
it was hot enough for him (it was 116 degrees).
Vince replied that at least we had air conditioning while the young man
had to stand out in the heat and inquired how he was doing.
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| New Mexico |
Well don’t you know that about five to seven minutes down
the road our air conditioning went out?
I said to Vince “you had to say well at least we have air conditioning” and
he replied he was thinking the same thing, talk about jinxing us. For those who don’t know me very well I am
extremely superstitious.
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| New Mexico |
Let me assure you that it gets really hot in a vehicle
really fast when it is 100+ degrees.
Fortunately Vince spotted a truck repair place at the first exit we came
to after this occurred. He first checked
it himself to see what the problem might be but not seeing any obvious reasons:
belts loose, frozen compress, etc, we headed to the Great West Truck
Repair.
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| Arizona |
When Vince came back after checking us in, he shared that it
would be two hours before they would be able to get to us. But then the next thing I knew Vince was back
to unhook us from the trailer to take us over to be worked on. Apparently when the air conditioner was
repaired in Pennsylvania a year or two ago the
settings were done for Pennsylvania
and not for heat like CA. Don, our nice
technician, who happened to be originally from Akron , made adjustments to the manufactured
specs and on came the air conditioning.
We were back on the road within two hours of the start of our ordeal,
very thankful for shops like Great West that have helped us out more than once
on our travels.
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| California |
I had planned to take pictures in every state as we passed
through but it rained a great deal through the Midwest ,
so no good photos ops from those states.
Instead I am posting those I was able to get along the way. Today we are in Barstow ,
CA and will travel down to the Harrah’s Resort
in Valley Center
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