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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
On The Road Again......To Valdez........Well Maybe Not!
We took our time in the morning getting ready to go because we were told our parcel might not arrive till around 1:00 PM. We pulled out of the campground just shortly after 12:00 noon. Ed and Frances went to the UPS place to await the arrival of the parcel and we went to the grocery store and post office. We would meet in the grocery store parking lot. At about 1:30 Ed and Frances rolled in with the package......at last! Frances got some groceries and then we were finally on the road. We stopped just outside of Chickaloon to go through an Historical Coal washing place. Turns out the operation only ran for 2 years before the Government decided to coal from this area was too poor a quality to be bothered with. There was some old rusted out machinery sitting around and some building (most were locked up) with nothing in them but some pictures of the people connected to the Historical Society. I think they were reaching here.
We were back on the road again for maybe ½ an hour when Frances radioed that they were pulling off at the next turn out. We thought they were going to take pictures of this little lake so Colin got out and walked around but they didn’t. Turns out Ed was having major difficulty with his transmission. It was not shifting gears, although he did seem to have forward and reverse. We were lucky as it was sort of a little camping area and it was free, so while he could still move the truck he backed the trailer into a spot and unhooked. There wasn’t a lot of room but we managed to find a spot too. The cell service was almost non existent and Ed had to stand on top of his truck to get anything. After several calls that got him nowhere he finally found intelligent life at a GM dealer in Wassila. They told him if he could get the truck into the shop by 7:30 AM they would look at it right away. The guy thought it was likely only a relay switch and shouldn’t take long to fix. Rather than hang around for a tow truck Colin and Ed fiddled around with the switch and got it to sort of work. In the morning Colin would follow Ed into Wassila and hopefully they would get all the way there.
We were back on the road again for maybe ½ an hour when Frances radioed that they were pulling off at the next turn out. We thought they were going to take pictures of this little lake so Colin got out and walked around but they didn’t. Turns out Ed was having major difficulty with his transmission. It was not shifting gears, although he did seem to have forward and reverse. We were lucky as it was sort of a little camping area and it was free, so while he could still move the truck he backed the trailer into a spot and unhooked. There wasn’t a lot of room but we managed to find a spot too. The cell service was almost non existent and Ed had to stand on top of his truck to get anything. After several calls that got him nowhere he finally found intelligent life at a GM dealer in Wassila. They told him if he could get the truck into the shop by 7:30 AM they would look at it right away. The guy thought it was likely only a relay switch and shouldn’t take long to fix. Rather than hang around for a tow truck Colin and Ed fiddled around with the switch and got it to sort of work. In the morning Colin would follow Ed into Wassila and hopefully they would get all the way there.