Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Day 10 Are We There Yet???

Welcome to day 10 of our adventure.


On the road again, through Nevada into Oregon.

It was a long, long, long journey until we saw that Oregon sign.

Welcome to Oregon. Okay, we are thinking the ground has finally leveled out. The last half of Utah was nice and flat and Nevada was relatively flat, just a few little hills. But we get into Oregon and it looks okay for about the first half hour or so, then we see this...

...8% downgrade!!! That is steeper than any we went over in Colorado or in NC. Yikes. I was white knuckling it all the way down...

...and down...and around...and down some more......and down...when will it end?


Thank God we were hugging the mountain because there wasn't even a guardrail on the cliff side! And it was a HUGE drop.

Once we reached the bottom, we smelled the brakes. Shew. Stinky. Glenn was concerned he'd locked the breaks up on the car we were pulling or something, but then he remembered he hadn't he the jake brake. We were both getting road weary. Are we there yet?

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