We finished the Bailey job, so we decided to go out to Pawnee Grasslands Thursday and Friday, and get the chestnut collared longspur. But they’re burning patches of the grasslands over the weekend, so that wouldn’t be a good place to stay. We decided to leave early for Cortez, go straight across the high country, spend the night in Grand Junction, and get some work done on the motorhome Friday at a truck place we like there. We want them to look at the dash air and the exhaust brake. A Freightliner shop can do that. Then, since we’re not going out on the Colorado plains to get the longspur, we could loop out through Utah on the way south to Cortez and pick up the juniper titmouse.
But there is a winter storm going on in the high country, so no going west. No Utah. No juniper titmouse.
Plan C. We’re in the parking lot of a Freightliner repair place out north of Denver just off I-25, plugged into electricity. Tomorrow morning, they start on our coach at 6:45. I’m sure they’ll be done early, After all, how hard could it be to fix the dash air and check the exhaust brake? I figure we’ll be out of here by noon.
Then, we’ll go south over Raton while the weather is good, loop around through Santa Fe, and back up to Cortez. We’ll go to Cortez without going west through the mountains. Drive Friday, and Saturday, and have all day Sunday in Cortez, before we start work there Monday. That’s tonight’s plan, anyway.
