Q - Sunday Night - Denver

From Q via email - Sunday - 9/14 - 11:30 PM Mountain Time

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Arrived in Denver this evening about 6:30 covered about 350 miles circa 16 mpg (the details are in the truck and I, fortunately, am not).

Stayed last night in the Buckshot motor inn, painted concrete block walls, that was the INSIDE of the rooms .. Liked it tho, family owned and run, clean, and real high-speed internet unlike the hopelessly slow connection here at the Holiday inn express.

Moderately windy this morning, about 20 kts out of the north west, slowed us down some but the winds abated after lunch and we picked up some speed.

There is no cruise control in the truck but there IS a hand throttle .. So you have to set it so your are not terrified on the down hill stretches (max speed recorded by the gps so far is 81.3 mph) and too slow on the hills. As you climb the hills you can watch the speed drop and the engine slide off the torque curve (it will still pull 4 od at about 45 mph but that is about it) because it takes like 5 min to find the hand throttle sweet spot and to down shift you have to move the setting ....

Yesterday I was concerned about the valve adjustment because of the old non-unleaded head and I stopped and checked the adjustment, Well I checked that there was still some play in all the valve adjustment because I didn’t bring a feeler gauge... All was well but I will check and adjust the clearances properly in the morning.

Today’s drive across the rest of Kansas was a lot more interesting that I thought it would be. It is a vastly different experience to drive across the country on a road like rt-36 where you can pull over anywhere and look at, or walk over to the interesting sights at the side of the road.. For us, the velocity impaired, it probably is not all that slower anyway.

I will let the pictures tell the story of what we saw and where we stopped today. Eric tells me we have a 5000 foot climb right after b-fast so .....

Rgds Q