The Trip Home
Final Trip Update, sorry it's taken so long.
So we spent the rest of the day in Moab washing clothes, washing the car, changing filters in the car, and finally onto hiking in Arches National Park. If any of you get the chance to spend some time in this area, you should. Moab is a nice little jump point to Arches, Capital Reef, and Canyonlands National Parks. There are also some really nice state parks nearby. Hwy 70 is an incredible drive too if your into scenic drives or geology. Arches was awesome and there are some nice hikes in the park. Camping is hard this time of year and I'd say you'd be lucky to get a spot at the only camp site int the park.
After leaving Arches/Moab we drove into Colorado and stopped in Grand Junction to see if we could find some decent Burritos, whcih we didn't. We ate at a really horrible Mexican place that made me wishing I was at La Hacienda for those in Charleston reading hte blog. We got back on Hwy 70 and continued driving along side the Colorado River up close to Vail. Ashley saw that there were some camp sites on a highway south of Vail that we could camp so we went exploring. The car at this point was not doing so well. It has continued to make the sound in the rear end that sounds like the ass end of the car is falling off, but then just stops, and now the valves are knocking really bad. I only figured out later that it was running as bad as it was because of the altitude and the lack of O2 it was use to. At any rate we found probably our best campsite of the trip in a National Forest south of Vail, just incredible. It was hard to sleep that night though becasue we had freaked ourselves out about the possibility of bears.
The next day I changed my oil, filter, and air filter at a local parts place and headed to Boulder, where we could buy 100% biodiesel. Ashley has some friends in Boulder that she met in New Zealand, and I have some friends there from my home town of Cookeville, but the sad thing was that neither of us knew how to get hold of anyone. Ashley did manage to get hold of one of her friends, but he was in Charleston visiting. They recommended some places to eat, so we went and got some good food and beer. We made it to the Biodiesel place selling Blue Sun biodiesel and I happened to meet some guys with a car very similar to mine who recommended we camp/visit a town back in the mountains called Nederland. So we filled up and took off for Nederland. We shopped at a nice mineral/fossil store and got some beers at a nearby pub(insert name here). We ended up meeting some guys, Nathan and Matt, who invited us to stay at Nathans cabin that night. It was awesome to hang out and make some veggie chili. Thanks guys if your reading.
We left the next day for home. To make a very long drive short we drove nearly 800 miles, most one veggie oil, to a truck stop in Missouri where we got a very horrible 4 hours sleep in the car and then drove another 500 miles to my dads house in Cookeville Tn, and then yesterday another 465 miles to Charleston. The night in Cookeville was the best nights sleep I think I've had in a week or more.
We are home. Back to routine and school for me. Ashley has her dog, Charlie, back and starts work soon. I start back to work tomorrow and school on wednesday.
Anyone thats been following us, I hope you've enjoyed these limited posts. Thanks for reading.
I will make other posts about the car.
So we spent the rest of the day in Moab washing clothes, washing the car, changing filters in the car, and finally onto hiking in Arches National Park. If any of you get the chance to spend some time in this area, you should. Moab is a nice little jump point to Arches, Capital Reef, and Canyonlands National Parks. There are also some really nice state parks nearby. Hwy 70 is an incredible drive too if your into scenic drives or geology. Arches was awesome and there are some nice hikes in the park. Camping is hard this time of year and I'd say you'd be lucky to get a spot at the only camp site int the park.
After leaving Arches/Moab we drove into Colorado and stopped in Grand Junction to see if we could find some decent Burritos, whcih we didn't. We ate at a really horrible Mexican place that made me wishing I was at La Hacienda for those in Charleston reading hte blog. We got back on Hwy 70 and continued driving along side the Colorado River up close to Vail. Ashley saw that there were some camp sites on a highway south of Vail that we could camp so we went exploring. The car at this point was not doing so well. It has continued to make the sound in the rear end that sounds like the ass end of the car is falling off, but then just stops, and now the valves are knocking really bad. I only figured out later that it was running as bad as it was because of the altitude and the lack of O2 it was use to. At any rate we found probably our best campsite of the trip in a National Forest south of Vail, just incredible. It was hard to sleep that night though becasue we had freaked ourselves out about the possibility of bears.
The next day I changed my oil, filter, and air filter at a local parts place and headed to Boulder, where we could buy 100% biodiesel. Ashley has some friends in Boulder that she met in New Zealand, and I have some friends there from my home town of Cookeville, but the sad thing was that neither of us knew how to get hold of anyone. Ashley did manage to get hold of one of her friends, but he was in Charleston visiting. They recommended some places to eat, so we went and got some good food and beer. We made it to the Biodiesel place selling Blue Sun biodiesel and I happened to meet some guys with a car very similar to mine who recommended we camp/visit a town back in the mountains called Nederland. So we filled up and took off for Nederland. We shopped at a nice mineral/fossil store and got some beers at a nearby pub(insert name here). We ended up meeting some guys, Nathan and Matt, who invited us to stay at Nathans cabin that night. It was awesome to hang out and make some veggie chili. Thanks guys if your reading.
We left the next day for home. To make a very long drive short we drove nearly 800 miles, most one veggie oil, to a truck stop in Missouri where we got a very horrible 4 hours sleep in the car and then drove another 500 miles to my dads house in Cookeville Tn, and then yesterday another 465 miles to Charleston. The night in Cookeville was the best nights sleep I think I've had in a week or more.
We are home. Back to routine and school for me. Ashley has her dog, Charlie, back and starts work soon. I start back to work tomorrow and school on wednesday.
Anyone thats been following us, I hope you've enjoyed these limited posts. Thanks for reading.
I will make other posts about the car.
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