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Daily Didactic
The morning started on our last day in the Rockies, at the very pleasant Aspen Glen campground. We started early to make an 8:30 appointment in Boulder with our 2004 mechanic Verner. We drove past the last elk and mountains we are likely to see for a couple of weeks and wound our way the forty miles downhill to Boulder. We dropped the bus off for a new starter, a clutch adjustment, an oil change and a tune-up and walked a couple of blocks to Joe's Espresso to settle in for a few hours of electricity and wifi. Brian caught up with didactics and Theresa worked on finishing the book she's been reading.
Around noon the bus was done and we jumped onto I-70 to start the trek across the country's flat spot toward New York. After the initial shock of getting used to hurtling along at 65 miles an hour, the day went smoothly and very warmly. Oddly, while the starter started when asked, it ground like it had not before. Equally oddly, the bus had a lot of trouble when the gas pedal was not close to the floor, threatening to stall out. This was fine for highway driving, but made it a pain to drive in and out of a gas station.
We swapped Colorado for Kansas late afternoon and marveled at the extent to which things got hotter and flatter. Somewhere just west of Salina we were reminded of what humidity feels like, hitting an invisible wall that felt like stepping into a sauna. We called it a late night a few hundred miles east of the Rockies at the very warm and muggy Salina KOA.
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