On the road again

[Henry Jay Hannigan]

Don:
Good luck on your trip and your ankle. Take it easy on both.
Regards.
Hank
90SP36 still in Vegas









--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
wrote:
>
> Left home in Eureka today, exactly 10 weeks after badly breaking my
right ankle. Got the surgeon to remove the one screw that had to come
out (tied tibia and fibula together) on Thursday, and it is still
complaining a bit about that.
>
> I gave it a good workout today by crossing on California 299. This
is only the second time I've driven an RV West-East on that road, and
the first time in a 40 footer. For those unfamiliar with it, the 150
miles from the coast to Redding crosses four passes and has very few
straight parts. The middle portion along the Trinity river was thick
with smoke. Before we left this morning a neighbor told me that they
had heard 299 was closed because of a flare-up at Big Bar, but a call
to Cal-Trans indicated the road was open.
>
> When we got to Big Bar, the grass was flaming right against the
pavement! Saw lots of fire crews, but didn't see any that appeared to
be doing anything. Huge tent city fire camps at Junction City.
Between Junction City and Big Bar is where that helicopter went down
August 6.
>
> Going up the 8% grade to Oregon Mountain, the third of the 4
passes, I was down to 18MPH in first gear to keep the engine at 200
in the 100+ air temps.
>
> The culmination of that crossing is 5 miles of continuous hairpins
down from Buckhorn, the last summit. There is literally no stretch of
straight road in that 5 miles, which drops a bit over 1500 feet in
the process. Most turns marked as either 20MPH or 25MPH.
>
> We usually go either north or south on 101 before heading east, but
since we are going to Salt Lake City it would be a lot of extra miles
to go any other way. Price we pay for living behind the Redwood
Curtain.
>
> Don Bradner
> 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
> Posting today by satellite from Susanville, CA
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> Don Bradner
> 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
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