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NinerBikes
Dec 06, 2013Explorer
About a year ago, I bought my travel trailer in Big Rock, IL on Black Friday and spent a few days driving out there to pick it up. Weather was fine going over Eisenhower Pass at 11,158 ft., but when I left Des Moines, IA a cold dense artic front was spreading south out of the Canadian plains that day. Picked up the trailer around 2 pm, and made it back to a WalMart in Davenport, ready to call it a night. It was -7F when I got up in the morning, and getting out of bed into that cold air was a once in a lifetime experience. I am too old for that... I used to do it in a tent camping at ice out fishing for trophy brown trout, but not any more. Been there, done that. But I did save a fortune taking delivery and bringing my travel trailer back myself, instead of having it trucked west. Trailering in that cold sucks the hell out of your MPG in that cold dense air pulling a big old 8X8 wall behind you.
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