Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From New Mexico
- Amskeptic
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Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From New Mexico
But first, I had to be punished for those beautiful sunny warm days prior to Nevada as I came up from Tucson, Casa Grande, and Phoenix.
I had left the Hoover Dam at 2:30PM or so...
... and back-tracked up to the Colorado River below the dam...
... then took US 93 down to Kingman AZ with a happily cruising BobD bus:
... and drove naively into the sunset planning a starlit camp-out where I could commune with the Universe:
It certainly was starlit. But I had picked exactly the coldest spot in the continental United States to set up. I thought I was still at a reasonable elevation when I wended my way down that dirt ranch road west of Flagstaff. Noooo. It was 6,000 feet. It was 22* at 5:00AM when I said to myself after a restless night of losing cover over my feet and waking to Frozen Bald Headedness, no, we're done here. There was ice all over the inside and outside of the windshield. So I drove into the dawn for relief(the heater works):
Finally thawed out at 3,500 feet or so outside of Gallup NM:
Can't describe how this view just tears at me:
Later, I got embarrassed. Had pulled off at the railroad tracks way away from the highway. Stripped down to my Calvins to really let that sun banish last night's frozen frozen frosty fitful frozen sleep effort. Was detailing the sliding door track "hey! I can HEAR a train coming in plenty of time to whip on my shorts, right?" Riiiiiiight. I am touching up rust under the seal along the bottom of the sliding door opening when upon me before I could even react was this stupid NMDOT Chevy Silverado gliding silently down the rails.
I waved. What'reyagonnado?
Colin
I had left the Hoover Dam at 2:30PM or so...
... and back-tracked up to the Colorado River below the dam...
... then took US 93 down to Kingman AZ with a happily cruising BobD bus:
... and drove naively into the sunset planning a starlit camp-out where I could commune with the Universe:
It certainly was starlit. But I had picked exactly the coldest spot in the continental United States to set up. I thought I was still at a reasonable elevation when I wended my way down that dirt ranch road west of Flagstaff. Noooo. It was 6,000 feet. It was 22* at 5:00AM when I said to myself after a restless night of losing cover over my feet and waking to Frozen Bald Headedness, no, we're done here. There was ice all over the inside and outside of the windshield. So I drove into the dawn for relief(the heater works):
Finally thawed out at 3,500 feet or so outside of Gallup NM:
Can't describe how this view just tears at me:
Later, I got embarrassed. Had pulled off at the railroad tracks way away from the highway. Stripped down to my Calvins to really let that sun banish last night's frozen frozen frosty fitful frozen sleep effort. Was detailing the sliding door track "hey! I can HEAR a train coming in plenty of time to whip on my shorts, right?" Riiiiiiight. I am touching up rust under the seal along the bottom of the sliding door opening when upon me before I could even react was this stupid NMDOT Chevy Silverado gliding silently down the rails.
I waved. What'reyagonnado?
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- Hippie
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Ya. See if you can scrounge a Heat Pal from a flea market.chitwnvw wrote:Hippie, fill him in on the alcohol heater, he doesn't have to freeze his hind-side off when it is a mere 22 degrees outside.Hippie wrote:Bwahahahaha! It happened again?!
Heats all night and you can cook breakfast on it in the morning!
chi, didja ever get the non-stock flame spreader issue sorted out on yours?
- whc03grady
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Because they only require about 6 sq.in. of ventilation, which most of our leaky old buses are more than able to provide. Colin, in the immaculately sealed BobD, is probably in some danger though unless he cracks a window.
Ludwig--1974 Westfalia, 2.0L (GD035193), Solex 34PDSIT-2/3 carburetors.
Gertie--1971 Squareback, 1600cc with Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection from a '72 (E brain).
Read about their adventures:
http://www.ludwigandgertie.blogspot.com
Gertie--1971 Squareback, 1600cc with Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection from a '72 (E brain).
Read about their adventures:
http://www.ludwigandgertie.blogspot.com
- midatlanticys
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I think alcohol heaters create CO2 but not CO . . . and a lot of moisture, so cracking the vents for some cross ventilation and fresh air is sensible.
"The sad thing about governments is that in every single case, government formed by the people eventually becomes so large it begins to prey upon the people who created it.” -- B. Hoover
- Runamuck Bus
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- whc03grady
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CK's CKs. Funny.Runamuck Bus wrote:Is it me or does this guy get caught in his CK's too often?
Ludwig--1974 Westfalia, 2.0L (GD035193), Solex 34PDSIT-2/3 carburetors.
Gertie--1971 Squareback, 1600cc with Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection from a '72 (E brain).
Read about their adventures:
http://www.ludwigandgertie.blogspot.com
Gertie--1971 Squareback, 1600cc with Bosch D-Jetronic fuel injection from a '72 (E brain).
Read about their adventures:
http://www.ludwigandgertie.blogspot.com