After a few weeks off, we hit the road today for Colorado. We have about 1,600 miles ahead of us and each day is going to be a long one. We’re going to take a more southern route – Virginia to Tennessee to Illinois to Missouri to Kansas to Colorado. I just don’t want to drive the West Virginia mountains!
We are heading out in a new truck. Well, same body but a completely new engine AND an engine brake! I feel really good about the mechanics of the truck…it’s the uncertainty of the weather that concerns me. There have been several major snow and ice events across the plains in the last couple of weeks. And with a big storm brewing in the Northwest, it should start across the plains sometime on Friday. We are praying that we won’t get caught in anything too bad. Once we make it to Denver, Justin and his guys at MK Trucking will do the rest. We’ll transfer the equipment to a smaller truck and MK Trucking will move it for us through the Rocky Mountains. Out truck is just too big to travel some of those snowy roads from Vail to Telluride.
I’ll take lots of pictures and video along the way – try to get some things posted as we go.