Awake 4:43am Temp 60 sleep 5+43 partly cloudy Elevation
6287 ft overnight @ Rock Springs, WY.
We left a living room window open & deflated the bedroom seal around #2
slideout to give us some fresh air flow during the night. The road grader
stopped making dust around 5:00pm yesterday & the wind subsided
considerably throughout the evening, so our sleep was good without running
our auxiliary generator.
Wes, the shop foreman, signals us to drive around to the west side of
their building & back into the opened service bay @ 8:45am. (2) hrs later,
the only thing Scott, the mechanic found was a loose fuel canister which
he claims was breathing air. I drive the coach back to our camping tarmac
& park. (10 min) later, Wes asks us to nose up to a east side bay as he
just got work of a recall item from Detroit Diesel to reprogram our turbo
charger. (45 min) later, we return to our tarmac parking spot. We are
charged an hrs labor & released.
It’s a little late to continue our driving northwest now (early
afternoon), so we have lunch & then drive the Suzuki to continue our
downtown Rock Springs walking tour. Again the wind is blowing from the
west with a darkened sky, but we go anyway.
We didn’t get out of our car…..intermittent rain showers began shortly
after we arrived @ where we left off yesterday. It was no use; such an
interesting town with a lot of history…..something else added to our list
to resume @ a later date I think.
7:05 dinner: Bratwurst, broccoli rice, mixed salad & bread with balsamic
vinegar & olive oil.
Satellite movie: “Meet John Dow” with Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck,
Walter Brennan, Spring Byington. A penniless drifter, Cooper gets caught
up in a newspaper publicity stunt. He is groomed & presented as the
spokesman of the common man by powerful men who manipulate his every
action for their own purposes. This movie was GREAT! Don’t miss it. 1941.
Late evening, another motorhome joined us on the tarmac @ the
Smith-Detroit Diesel building. Jack is also having his turbo charger
de-rated due to the recall notice.
High temp=90 Lights out: 11:32pm
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