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dolariRecent events at work have made it clear to me that when August 1st comes around, my date for moving to Seattle, I won't be able to take my job with me. This means the plans for me to have a reaplcement pickup in time for the trip won't be happening (can't make payments on a truck with a job that doesn't exist).
This has kinda fouled up the plans for the trip to Seattle a bit.
The original plan was to have my pickup packed full of stuff, towing the new pickup, also packed full of stuff, taking a leisurely drive through the Desert Southwest to see the Grand Canyon, Area 51 and Las Vegas. Should the pickup break down, no problem. Unhook the new pickup, put the old one in tow, and continue.
That second pickup may not be an option anymore. And a 16 year old truck isn't something you want to be driving through the desert southwest in August. Especially with no AC. No matter how I plotted it, the San Antonio to San Francisco run ran through some of the Chihuahua Desert.
I was almost ready to jut forget the San Francisco run and go straight to Seattle (where my ptoblem became the Rockies) when I realized I could more than likely make the run from Fort Stockton to Los Angeles in one night of straight driving, sunset to sunrise, crossing most of the desert at NIGHT, where it would be a bearable 80 degrees at night.
I did State College, PA to Gastonia, NC in one night (sunset to sunrise) and that would get me from San Antonio to Phoenix (assuming I left San Antonio early, hitting the desert in the evening). Once in Phoenix, I could get a room for the day, sleep off the oppressive heat, and pick up that evening from Phoenix to LA (or beyond) with the desert behind me.
I'm still worried about that pickup. Should I get a job in Seattle BEFORE I leave, I'm still buying that pickup and a tow hitch, but at least now there's a plan incase something goes wrong between now and then.
Although if something goes wrong in eight days...well...that's a worry for another time (eight days from now).
This has kinda fouled up the plans for the trip to Seattle a bit.
The original plan was to have my pickup packed full of stuff, towing the new pickup, also packed full of stuff, taking a leisurely drive through the Desert Southwest to see the Grand Canyon, Area 51 and Las Vegas. Should the pickup break down, no problem. Unhook the new pickup, put the old one in tow, and continue.
That second pickup may not be an option anymore. And a 16 year old truck isn't something you want to be driving through the desert southwest in August. Especially with no AC. No matter how I plotted it, the San Antonio to San Francisco run ran through some of the Chihuahua Desert.
I was almost ready to jut forget the San Francisco run and go straight to Seattle (where my ptoblem became the Rockies) when I realized I could more than likely make the run from Fort Stockton to Los Angeles in one night of straight driving, sunset to sunrise, crossing most of the desert at NIGHT, where it would be a bearable 80 degrees at night.
I did State College, PA to Gastonia, NC in one night (sunset to sunrise) and that would get me from San Antonio to Phoenix (assuming I left San Antonio early, hitting the desert in the evening). Once in Phoenix, I could get a room for the day, sleep off the oppressive heat, and pick up that evening from Phoenix to LA (or beyond) with the desert behind me.
I'm still worried about that pickup. Should I get a job in Seattle BEFORE I leave, I'm still buying that pickup and a tow hitch, but at least now there's a plan incase something goes wrong between now and then.
Although if something goes wrong in eight days...well...that's a worry for another time (eight days from now).
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Date: 2008-02-21 07:52 pm (UTC)A 16-year-old pickup with a base-level V6 and 215K miles on it, loaded to the gills AND pulling another pickup behind it dead in tow and also fully loaded? I'm not keen on that at all. At best it's going to be extremely slow going on the flat parts with a lot of stopping to let the engine cool down. Hills: going up, there goes your clutch and your radiator; going down, there go your brakes. See you at the bottom of the canyon.
I've heard the San Joaquin Valley between LA and San Francisco gets pretty toasty in the summer as well. You could always do US 101 in a pinch though.