{"id":5399,"date":"2019-05-24T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:57:11","slug":"lost-wages-to-salt-lake-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2019\/05\/24\/lost-wages-to-salt-lake-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Wages to Salt Lake City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We drove from Vegas to Beaver, UT on Sunday.\u00a0 It’s at about 6,000′ elevation.\u00a0 Pretty cold for us San Diegans.\u00a0 Was 33 when we got up that morning.\u00a0 I haven’t seen temps below 44 in San Diego except once when it got down to 32 degrees and killed my Heliotrope plant in the front yard.\u00a0 It was purple and red one day, the next morning it was brown and never revived.<\/p>\n

Anyway, prior to leaving San Diego I had two of the three Air Dump valves replaced as they were getting stuck open occasionally and it was irritating to wait for the air bags to fill so we could drive.\u00a0\u00a0 I was just replacing the one that was leaking, but par for the course, as soon as that was replaced, another one could be heard purging air when it wasn’t supposed to.\u00a0\u00a0 I drove all around town to locate another valve and could only get one.\u00a0 But I had the guy order one from LA so I could swing by some other day and have it on hand if needed.<\/p>\n

All seemed well after the second one was installed till the morning we were leaving on the trip.\u00a0\u00a0 I hadn’t made time to pick the other one up, so as we were exiting San Diego I had to drive to El Cajon and get it.\u00a0 (about 20 miles out of the way)<\/p>\n

Monday morning in Beaver the rear bags were fairly slow to fill; so while I waited, I called Freightliner in Salt Lake City to find out about having the last one replaced.\u00a0\u00a0 They told me I would need to wait till the 30th., 10 days from now!<\/p>\n

So I googled Diesel Mechanics around Beaver, UT.\u00a0\u00a0 There was one with almost five stars on Google’s Reviews.\u00a0\u00a0 I called them.\u00a0 They said to bring it right over and explained to me they were 1,000 feet from me.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove over, showed the mechanic the part.\u00a0 He crawled under the coach, said it would be a quick swap, and had me drop the air and raise the coach on the jacks.<\/p>\n

He had it replaced in 35 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 The last guy took 2 hours to do it.\u00a0 Paid them $110 (1 hr minimum) and we were on our way in less than an hour.\u00a0\u00a0 That was utterly amazing to me.\u00a0 I’ve got to make sure I write up a review of them!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So we headed across the mountains toward Salt Lake City and then the rains came.\u00a0 Then they turned to sleet and hail to make it a bit of an edgy ride.\u00a0\u00a0 When it started \"\"<\/a>to sleet, I slowed to 50 mph; but I was getting passed by lots of trucks still doing the 80 mph they allow there.\u00a0\u00a0 Seemed nuts to me as it was very steep downgrades and climbs thru long curves during all of it.\u00a0\u00a0 I never felt the coach slip, but I was waiting for it to occur.<\/p>\n

Once out of the winter weather, it was smooth sailing into downtown Salt Lake City to a KOA we stayed at on our way to Yellowstone back in 2017.\u00a0 \u00a0It was one of Kathy’s favorite parks, lots of grass for Dusty! Thankfully it’s a lot cooler here than it was in June of that year and a lot less crowded.<\/p>\n

Drove over to the big temple that’s in the middle of downtown and got pizza for dinner!\u00a0\u00a0 The next morning it was raining pretty good and continued all day.\u00a0 So I spent a lot of the day redoing my playlists on my local pc in the front of the coach so we can have tunes in the great white north where an internet connection may be difficult to find.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We switched our cell phones to Cricket Wireless as it appears AT&T has more connectivity in Canada and we could get an unlimited plan that includes Canada and Mexico for $40 each.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our current Verizon and AT&T hotspot plans don’t include any data outside the USA.\u00a0\u00a0 So we are good in Alaska, but Canada \"\"<\/a>will probably find us looking for WiFi when camping.\u00a0\u00a0 I installed a new omni-directional WiFi antenna from Mikrotik Metal AC Router<\/a> on my crank-up TV antenna.<\/p>\n

I still have my\u00a0NanoStation<\/a> with us for longer range WiFi acquisition situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We drove from Vegas to Beaver, UT on Sunday.\u00a0 It’s at about 6,000′ elevation.\u00a0 Pretty cold for us San Diegans.\u00a0 Was 33 when we got up that morning.\u00a0 I haven’t seen temps below 44 in San Diego except once when it got down to 32 degrees and killed my Heliotrope plant in the front yard.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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