22. Final Thoughts.
Well that is indeed good to hear - opening this Fall.
In our case, having to deal with a partial road closure, in a year we chose to make this run, turned out quite beneficial. The Nacimiento Road is now one of our favorite drives! One of our favorite memories!
Of course, if we had been traveling with the TT, the closure would have simply been problematic. We would have missed that drive, we would have had additional miles and time invested to go around. In fact, it's likely we would have had too many harrowing moments the entire way, to really enjoy it the way we did.
The smaller footprint of Lil' Queeny provided a whole different experience.
When we used to run the pop-up TC, we used to take daredevil drives.
Here's one with the ATV (before I got the Willys working). Nine miles down a narrow mountain road, and THEN we came to a dam with what turned out to be a spill-way road.
To get here, in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming.
Another was after the Montana Ghost Town Garnet, and then we took a "short-cut" dirt road that we weren't sure off. It came out at the Interstate - eventually. We took these at the bottom, looking back.
And there was this trip on the Fourth of July weekend (the one weekend that summer when they shut down construction on the Haul Road - Fairbanks to Deadhorse on Prudoe Bay) when we just about had the entire north half of the road to ourselves!
Galbraith Lake, north side of the Brooks Range.
And further down the North Slope.
We have come to learn, the road less traveled is where we like to be. Almost midnight heading back south bound, ready to climb the Brooks again.
We can tell Lil' Queeny is gonna be a long-term friend.
Today I was going to cover a couple problems we had on this trip: fridge cooling, fridge roof vent, escape hatch/roof vent, but those are pretty much faded into the memory banks. As with so many things in life, problems fade and we tend to remember the good stuff.
Just like our lives together - me and DW - and to use a Bob Seger lyric, our shake down in Lil' Queeny out to the central portion of the Pacific Coast Highway and back, was just another "Fine Memory".
Thanks for letting us share it with you. :)
