Mike and Trish beat feet.
Starting today, the forecast for several days is for 100+ high temps. We're packing up, out of here in 10 days. We usually launch a couple weeks earlier but 3 months on the road is our limit, and September is hotter than May. In fact, May has been quite pleasant this year.
We'll be in Santa Fe, NM for a couple weeks, CO for a month, then north to see where Custer bit it, then east to MN for the family reunion and, finally, haul ass back across the Midwest.
One of our CO stops is Pike's Peak, which boasts the second-highest paved road* in the USA, topping out at 14,125'. Mt Evans, about 50 miles NW of Pike's, is higher by a hair, 5' higher to be exact. Granted, that's somewhat thicker than your average hair.
The comb-over guys would die for that hair. You know, those guys who part their hair just above their left ear and comb it over the top of their bald heads, all the way to their right ear - and then pray that the prevailing winds are from the west. I feel sorry for those guys. They can't seem to recognize that they're fooling nobody but themselves, and that it's terminally unattractive.
When we last visited CO, the pickup didn't like the high altitude, engine and drive train went spastic at altitudes above 8K'. We're hoping the problem resolved itself, since it didn't reoccur last summer in Yellowstone NP at 9K'. RAM service people are totally clueless as to cause or cure.
* The highest paved road in the world is highway G318 between Lhasa and Nepal. Mountain passes there go up to 17,260'. Talk about a natural high.
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