The roads are treacherous coming from the north to Jackson, Wyoming. Even with a speed limit of 75 mph the going was slow. Our faithful tour bus took us the distance but with difficulty. It overheated at every hill until a friendly truck driver took pity on us. Apparently you have to power spray your radiator and switch to a low gear and run the RPMs as high as you can to weather the hills. His advice was good, and it helped us a lot. But when you get to a 10% grade, it's every man for himself. Our brakes started smoking halfway down the mountain and it was an hour before we could risk the downhil climb once more.
To it's credit, the road was beautiful...well not the road exactly, the scenery around us was, and it made the trip quite enjoyable, despite our frequent stops.
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Jessica! Thanks for sharing so much of your journey! Its great to be able to keep up with you on this blog! Keep it up.
I'm glad you figured out the low gear stuff with the trahnsmission
-cuz philip
Haha, yeah well if you're my dad and forget to take the parking break off, and proceed to drive through Hatcher Pass (it's pretty much like driving through mountains)...that also makes the breaks smoke. Glad it all worked out!
Sara
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