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mama_sylvia
Aug 31, 2017Explorer
Not in a CG but trying to get to one ... We travelled from Wyoming to Texas every year for several years so the kids could have Christmas with the grandparents. Motor homes, IMNSHO, and the ONLY way to travel with children! One year we had snowstorms every Tuesday during our trip. Left on a Tuesday and halfway through Colorado, I almost couldn't see the road. Got off at the next stop and parked in a school parking lot. Started the generator to power stuff ... started fine, but no power to the coach! Not fun in cold and snow! Ran the chassis engine on and off to power the heat. Next day, police visited us ;) so I asked if there was a CG or somewhere else I could park and plug in. He said not in their little town but the next exit was a larger town. Both interstate and county road were closed, of course. He said the interstate would be better. It was one of those overpasses where you have to drive DOWN and there was a steep drop on both sides. Rear wheel drive, of course, and no snow tires or chains. I have never been so scared in my life. I crawled down that ramp so slowly, a snail would have beat me in a race. No space in the second town's CG so we boondocked, with no genny power. (Turned out my DH hadn't plugged the power cord back into the genny when he unplugged from the house, but it took us several critical days to figure that out.) Even at that, we were better off than a lot of people. We had shelter, heat, food, beds, and a bathroom. The kids had a DVD player and some handheld games. Coming back from that trip is when we ran into a snowstorm in Amarillo and were thrilled to find a WM to boondock in. But I still shake with terror when I remember the drive down that steep, snowy entrance ramp.
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