The Long Long Trailer movie relived!
It's me again.
Of course it is difficult to come in and write this after sitting in the sun and enjoying a beer. But then a nice surprise happened when our daughter sent pictures of the snow they received back in the upper states. After reviewing the pictures, I think I will go back out and finish off another beer, and soak up more sun.
Anyway, I thought I would tell ya all about yesterdays drive. After driving for 3 days across the flatlands, Ruth decided that it would be nice if we took a different path rather then what the GPS system mapped out for us.
My first question was this. “Your not going to take me into the mountains are you?”
Of course her answer was NO and that I should consider this an adventure. So we turned off the assigned route and headed into no-mans land. The drive was nice and all I had to worry about was a huge jackalope jumping out in front of me or a tumbleweed piercing a tire, leaving us to die a slow death. I did remind her that we needed gas every few miles, so keep us on primary roads. As it turned out, she did a good job in that field. We found gas!
After going through a few reservations we started to travel through pretty Indian/state park areas. Trees all around and cute little road signs that warned you to watch out for crazed elk in the area. What she didn't see was the trees hiding a few little bumps in the ground.
Soon we left the forest area and broke out into open ground. This is when the great state of Arizona placed the one and only sign that made sense. It stated. “You shouldn't have listen to her! You are about to be scared to death for the next hour”.
From that point on, we were either in a climb that was at least 5 to 7 degrees, or going down at 5 to 7 degrees. For those that think that is nothing, I will state that right before we started down one of those, they placed a sign along-side the road with a pull-over spot to park at.
The road sign always stated “Check your braking equipment here!”
Also on the steeper grades, they would place other signs that told you how many miles till the next truck sandbox area. In other words they told you how many miles you can attempt before you died when you brakes failed.
On one of the downhill runs, I thought it was rather funny to have the sign because if you were in a runaway truck/camper, you would hit the tunnel walls long before you made it to the sandbox areaon the other side.
All during this hour of twist and turns Ruth was snapping pictures and telling me how pretty it all looked. Actually her very words were -- “This is so pretty, but don't look now”.
And to think I love this women and took her along on this trip.
All the time I was thinking of the movie where Desi Arnaz and Lucy Ball played newly-weds and they took off through the mountains with a “The Long Long Trailer”.
For you young people, the The Long Long Trailer was the name of a movie. To understand my comments you would have to see the movie.
We made it and thats all that counts. No pictures cause the camera was in the trailer.
Besides, I had my eyes closed most of the time!
Later
Of course it is difficult to come in and write this after sitting in the sun and enjoying a beer. But then a nice surprise happened when our daughter sent pictures of the snow they received back in the upper states. After reviewing the pictures, I think I will go back out and finish off another beer, and soak up more sun.
Anyway, I thought I would tell ya all about yesterdays drive. After driving for 3 days across the flatlands, Ruth decided that it would be nice if we took a different path rather then what the GPS system mapped out for us.
My first question was this. “Your not going to take me into the mountains are you?”
Of course her answer was NO and that I should consider this an adventure. So we turned off the assigned route and headed into no-mans land. The drive was nice and all I had to worry about was a huge jackalope jumping out in front of me or a tumbleweed piercing a tire, leaving us to die a slow death. I did remind her that we needed gas every few miles, so keep us on primary roads. As it turned out, she did a good job in that field. We found gas!
After going through a few reservations we started to travel through pretty Indian/state park areas. Trees all around and cute little road signs that warned you to watch out for crazed elk in the area. What she didn't see was the trees hiding a few little bumps in the ground.
Soon we left the forest area and broke out into open ground. This is when the great state of Arizona placed the one and only sign that made sense. It stated. “You shouldn't have listen to her! You are about to be scared to death for the next hour”.
From that point on, we were either in a climb that was at least 5 to 7 degrees, or going down at 5 to 7 degrees. For those that think that is nothing, I will state that right before we started down one of those, they placed a sign along-side the road with a pull-over spot to park at.
The road sign always stated “Check your braking equipment here!”
Also on the steeper grades, they would place other signs that told you how many miles till the next truck sandbox area. In other words they told you how many miles you can attempt before you died when you brakes failed.
On one of the downhill runs, I thought it was rather funny to have the sign because if you were in a runaway truck/camper, you would hit the tunnel walls long before you made it to the sandbox areaon the other side.
All during this hour of twist and turns Ruth was snapping pictures and telling me how pretty it all looked. Actually her very words were -- “This is so pretty, but don't look now”.
And to think I love this women and took her along on this trip.
All the time I was thinking of the movie where Desi Arnaz and Lucy Ball played newly-weds and they took off through the mountains with a “The Long Long Trailer”.
For you young people, the The Long Long Trailer was the name of a movie. To understand my comments you would have to see the movie.
We made it and thats all that counts. No pictures cause the camera was in the trailer.
Besides, I had my eyes closed most of the time!
Later
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