We drove our coach 155 miles, about 2 hour of driving, from Wheatland, Wyoming to Longmont, Colorado, with a stop to repair a leaking tire.
The map route, heading south:
Heading south on I-25:
Green hills and cell towers (I appreciate the good cell reception down the freeway):
Domes:
Interesting rocks:
Man, horse, dog artwork on a hill:
Mowing ahead:
Rain:
Expect fog… yep indeed:
We stopped at Little America of Cheyenne:
To visit Rocky Mountain Truck Center, to diagnose and repair a slowly leaking tire on our coach:
While they looked at it, we headed up to the Little America resort for lunch, passing a Sinclair Oil dinosaur dressed as a cowboy:
Little America buffet restaurant:
We cut lunch a bit short, as they needed us to jack up our coach, using the leveling jacks. We raised only the driver side, to keep the passenger side wheels on the ground — raising all of the rear wheels off the ground is dangerous, as that’s the parking brake:
They found and marked the location of a nail in the tire, and worked on removing the tire:
I didn’t get a close-up picture of the nail in the tire, but here’s a zoomed crop:
The inner tire of the dual pair, and the rear jack:
Paladin sitting on the driver seat:
The repaired tire re-installed:
After getting that repaired ($70 total), we fueled up at the slowest truck stop ever. Usually truck stops have high-speed pumps, but this one was not. It was taking so long, we decided to fuel from both sides for the first time ever:
The main pump, as usual:
The secondary pump, on the passenger side; it is activated by the main pump:
Continuing south, some hilltop buffalo artwork:
Budweiser factory:
Paladin in the steps:
Roadworks:
A fascinating concrete-laying machine (concrete freeways are the worst):
Our destination, St Vrain State Park:
Entrance station:
Due to the tire excursion, we arrived later than usual, so the entrance station was closed. We used the “iron ranger” (as the rangers call it) to purchase a couple of Colorado state park annual passes (one for the coach, one for the truck):
Though when we talked with the ranger the next day to exchange the temporary ones, it turned out that we should have bought one, with a half-price add-on for the second vehicle. So we did that, and submitted a form for a refund for the second one. Oops. (We decided to get annual passes as we’re staying just enough days at Colorado state parks to offset the cost. Ironically, next year we don’t expect to visit Colorado at all. Still worthwhile, though.)
This is a rather nice park; stay tuned for more pics from our stay:
