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xctraveler
Jan 23, 2015Explorer
After 14 years and 200,000 miles on the road including Alaska via Top of the World Highway, the worst is the last two miles to our east coast son's house. It is VA dirt road into the Blue Ridge so it has elevation changes and many twists and turns. It is not quite standard two lanes wide. There are timber lots back in there that are being worked so logging trucks use the road. One day I met one of them in a narrow spot, I was going 10 mph he must have been going 40! I put my right side dual over the edge, he put his entire right side into the ditch and just kept flying, must have cleared me by at least 1/2 inch. Now DW drives the Jeep ahead of me with 4 ways on and we keep phone contact so she can warn me if there is anything coming at me.
Once I get to our son's yard I get to turn the coach 90 deg to fit on the pad in just about twice its length. It usually takes 5 to 7 K turns to get there.
Everything else is a piece of cake! Even Top of the World Highway.
Once I get to our son's yard I get to turn the coach 90 deg to fit on the pad in just about twice its length. It usually takes 5 to 7 K turns to get there.
Everything else is a piece of cake! Even Top of the World Highway.
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