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Road Trip to the Rocky Mountains 2022

You should go west a way up to lookout mountain. They have a good fudge shop up there. Bill Cody is buried there too.
 
So we went out to get an A&W Root Beer float. We were coming back towards the KOA on College Street near Colorado State University when on the side walk was a black woman on roller skates with green shorts topless (not very well endowed I should say)! My wife was flabbergasted and still is. The whole way back my daughter and I were laughing at her reaction. I have a very modest Southern Girl for a bride and this just floored her. Come to find out it is legal in 7 Western States for women to go top less.
 
So we went out to get an A&W Root Beer float. We were coming back towards the KOA on College Street near Colorado State University when on the side walk was a black woman on roller skates with green shorts topless (not very well endowed I should say)! My wife was flabbergasted and still is. The whole way back my daughter and I were laughing at her reaction. I have a very modest Southern Girl for a bride and this just floored her. Come to find out it is legal in 7 Western States for women to go top less.

I guess that just goes to show how liberal Colorado really is. Lisa and I would have been a little surprised by it, but not shocked.
 
My Lisa wants to know where decency and self respect went.

Out the window with moral values. If you've noticed over the last 30 to 40 years, nudity has become pretty much common place.

I'd been invited to a few bachelor parties over the years where they wanted to have them at strip clubs and while I appreciate the anatomy of the female body (not the fat ones, I'm sorry), I showed up, presented a gift (usually buy a round for everyone), and I would leave immediately thereafter. I'm no prude by any stretch, but any girl who thinks it's okay to flaunt their naked body in front of a bunch of ogling men, has no self respect and I won't be party to that. I'm actually more embarrassed for them, then they are for themselves.
 
Out the window with moral values. If you've noticed over the last 30 to 40 years, nudity has become pretty much common place.

I'd been invited to a few bachelor parties over the years where they wanted to have them at strip clubs and while I appreciate the anatomy of the female body (not the fat ones, I'm sorry), I showed up, presented a gift (usually buy a round for everyone), and I would leave immediately thereafter. I'm no prude by any stretch, but any girl who thinks it's okay to flaunt their naked body in front of a bunch of ogling men, has no self respect and I won't be party to that. I'm actually more embarrassed for them, then they are for themselves.
I hate strip clubs too.
 
Our local go to club 70's & 80's strippers 4-8 , happy hour 8-9 then rock bands. Sometimes as the old story goes, stop for 1/stay till 1.
 
We left Ft Collins yesterday and headed to Meade State Park in Meade, Kansas. I took a route through the country to avoid Denver. Colorado is FLAT East of the mountains. Some roads were good, others were a little rough. We eventually got on I-70 (fortunately no crosswinds) and exited onto Kansas 23 or K-23. We took it South. IDK how many miles it was but I would say at least 200 down this long 2 lane in the middle of great expanses of farm land. We ran into road construction close to Meade that delayed us. I need to find some fuel when we head out, there were no stations in the past 50 miles that I saw. We are close to the Oklahoma border and there are some on US-64 (which in NC runs thru my town). I am just below 1/2 a tank so no worries.

The Excursion's A/C is not liking 90+ degree weather again, we will live with it until we get home. What I need to address is the trailer brakes, my Prodigy P2 is showing an Overload and Short at times which leaves me with no brakes, when it happens. I think it is the wire that runs in the axle(s) may be shorting, seems to be a problem that develops over time. It is raining but if I see an auto parts store I will bypass the wires in the axles with a temporary repair until we get home. It will be a wet job but before I get into Tulsa and the Ozarks I need to correct it. Everything from the trailer connector on the truck back across the hitch is good, from there the wiring goes into the underbelly which I cannot get to then out to the axles.
 
We left Ft Collins yesterday and headed to Meade State Park in Meade, Kansas. I took a route through the country to avoid Denver. Colorado is FLAT East of the mountains. Some roads were good, others were a little rough. We eventually got on I-70 (fortunately no crosswinds) and exited onto Kansas 23 or K-23. We took it South. IDK how many miles it was but I would say at least 200 down this long 2 lane in the middle of great expanses of farm land. We ran into road construction close to Meade that delayed us. I need to find some fuel when we head out, there were no stations in the past 50 miles that I saw. We are close to the Oklahoma border and there are some on US-64 (which in NC runs thru my town). I am just below 1/2 a tank so no worries.

The Excursion's A/C is not liking 90+ degree weather again, we will live with it until we get home. What I need to address is the trailer brakes, my Prodigy P2 is showing an Overload and Short at times which leaves me with no brakes, when it happens. I think it is the wire that runs in the axle(s) may be shorting, seems to be a problem that develops over time. It is raining but if I see an auto parts store I will bypass the wires in the axles with a temporary repair until we get home. It will be a wet job but before I get into Tulsa and the Ozarks I need to correct it. Everything from the trailer connector on the truck back across the hitch is good, from there the wiring goes into the underbelly which I cannot get to then out to the axles.

The wire may not be shorting per say, but maybe it's been cut enough that only a few strands are what's connecting it and the reading it's sending is less than it should be.
 
If the thing wasn't intermittent it wouldn't be such a pain. It will show connected but when braking go to Overload. When driving it will be fine but then pop up Short and then disconnected then reconnect. The brakes will work sometimes but not others. Bumps don't seen to affect it nor do turns. Was fine yesterday for 100 miles than started acting up. Was working fine while I was testing it in the camp site. Definitely a skint wire somewhere. All of the magnets are engaging when working properly.
 
If the thing wasn't intermittent it wouldn't be such a pain. It will show connected but when braking go to Overload. When driving it will be fine but then pop up Short and then disconnected then reconnect. The brakes will work sometimes but not others. Bumps don't seen to affect it nor do turns. Was fine yesterday for 100 miles than started acting up. Was working fine while I was testing it in the camp site. Definitely a skint wire somewhere. All of the magnets are engaging when working properly.

That's why I was saying the wire may be cut just enough. When you hit the brakes it sends a heavy current to activate the magnets and if it can't send enough power, it'll fault.

I'd do a quick inspection when you are able to.
 
I crawled all under it last night and didn't see anything that is why I am thinking it is in the tubes. I have read multiple people having issues with the wires in them. Only thing I didn't throw in my tool collection was a roll of wire, go figure.
 
We didn't die from no trailer brakes.

I mentioned above I crawled under it, I did find a pinched wire and I straightened and repositioned it. Has worked fine so far.

We survived some thunderstorms in Kansas and left out for the Oklahoma panhandle. We turned East on US 64 and 100 miles or more later we found a fuel station, a Centex that was unmanned but the diesel was the cheapest around. We ran from the Colorado Kansas border on I-70 to that little town and we passed only 1 fuel station. I did stop and buy wiring supplies just in case, that was at an OReillys 50 mile father down the road.

Oklahoma is a long state, and they have toll roads. We drove around Tulsa and into the Oklahoma Hills, crossing into Arkansas. We found the park, way in the hills, a super nice place, Devils Den State Park. My daughter and I took a short hike. During the night the thunder, lighting and rain rolled it. Did it Rain. Our site had 4 inches of water rolling through it. We needed to get going that morning and the lightning and thunder and pouring rain continued. One hand with an umbrella and another doing the work, I unhooked and prepared for travel, in my sandals in 4 inches of water. I didn't get electrocuted turning off the power pole breaker and told my ladies and dogs to stay in the camper, I pulled out of the site and they were able to get in the truck without stepping in the flood but they still got wet in the dumping rain. I pulled out of the campground, found a pull off and went into the camper to change clothes. A Ranger stopped to see if we were ok and Lisa told her the story, he grinned and went on.

We took Hwy 74 out of the park, uphill switchbacks, people on the Internet say don't do it. I did it. Not too bad, have to know your rig. All the way through Arkansas it dumped and dumped, lightning and thunder the whole way. We had found a leak around an outside outlet. We stopped at a Camping World in Little Rock, I bought some ProFlex and a caulk gun and continued on to our next site, Mississippi River State Park in Arkansas.

We arrived at the park, pouring rain, found the site, quickly set up (we are good at it) and when opening the slide found a roof leak from a skylight. I Had ProFlex!! on the roof I went, found the leak, sealed it and the outlet. The stuff works in water. I cleaned the water from the light and Lisa cleaned the water on the floor. This camper has never leaked. I will be ordering 2 new skylights. Also, both parks had no cell signal.

The rain finally stopped. This morning we ate breakfast outside, got everything ready and headed out. We drove though the park to US49 and crossed the Mississippi into Mississippi, a bonus state for the trip. We took the back way to Cedars of Lebanon State park in Lebanon, TN where we are now. The final leg to NC is Saturday.
 
I was saying to Kevin the Excursion hasn't hiccupped, well it did today, jinxed myself. Started it this morning on the way to the city and a CEL popped on. P0404 and P0405. EGR. I cleared the codes with a scan gauge but there was an embedded code it could not clear. Truck ran fine, EGR changing readings according to the scan gauge. I did not say anything to anyone until we left Nashville to head back to the camper. I called a local dealer when we stopped to eat, they did not have one but they told me who did. We got done eating and started it, the light went off. Lisa said to fix it because the error will come back. I could have cleaned it but with 100,000 + miles on the valve I bought a new one. Easy install. I cleared the codes with ForScan and everything looks good.
 
Time for an EGR delete..... when I had mine bulletproofed, I had all the latest updates and deletes. She still runs like a raped ape.
 
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