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Due to working a lot of extra hours over super bowl weekend I was able to take off half a day Thursday and all of Friday without burning a vacation day. A last minute trip to Big Bend shaped up. It was going to be a solo trip, but on Thursday morning, with snow already on the ground and falling fast, my neighbor Brian came by with a proposition. Hook my trailer to his Jeep and let him come along. Okay... Deal.
Here is what the yard looked like three hours before I could get away...
I rolled the trailer into the street and loaded up my KLR and my new to me WRR.
Having an hour to kill before Brian could go, I played in the snow for a bit.
The dog thought I was nuts. He is probably right!
We made our way west, and as we went the roads got worse. West of Weatherford the slush in the road changed to ice. In a construction zone all movement ceased.
That is ice in the road and on the hood. Not much for those used to it, but in this part of Texas stuff like this is rare, and driver's skill in dealing with it is about what you expect to see in those that don't see ice and snow often. Buck was pretty patient about the half hour of sitting still.
We finally get going again, and the weather persists past Abilene.
At that point I just put the camera away. we had already been on the road for five hours and had not covered 200 miles.
Here is what the yard looked like three hours before I could get away...
I rolled the trailer into the street and loaded up my KLR and my new to me WRR.
Having an hour to kill before Brian could go, I played in the snow for a bit.
The dog thought I was nuts. He is probably right!
We made our way west, and as we went the roads got worse. West of Weatherford the slush in the road changed to ice. In a construction zone all movement ceased.
That is ice in the road and on the hood. Not much for those used to it, but in this part of Texas stuff like this is rare, and driver's skill in dealing with it is about what you expect to see in those that don't see ice and snow often. Buck was pretty patient about the half hour of sitting still.
We finally get going again, and the weather persists past Abilene.
At that point I just put the camera away. we had already been on the road for five hours and had not covered 200 miles.
