We got started bright and early Tuesday morning, with all of the usual pre-race confusion and mayhem. We had a few helmets that needed last minute tech inspection, the chase cars needed to grab water and snacks, that sort of thing. The truck was lined up in its starting place, the GPS course [...]
Wow. Just wow. Now that was an experience. It’s going to take a while to digest and write about, so in the interest of keeping family sane in the face of inevitable media reports of the deaths and serious injuries that occured, let me first say that I survived, in one [...]
Woohoo! This week I will be part of a team driving the Baja 1000. It’s one of those things that I’ve always wanted to do, but never thought would be possible. It should be a pretty amazing week, though I’m definitely having a few of the “what the hell did I [...]
After getting into Lethbridge around 2am last night, I was up around 7am this morning, and knowing that I was (probably) going to end up in my own bed, I pretty much just dragged myself out of bed and got on the road. The whole unplanned stopover in Dauphin / Winnipeg sort of [...]
10:00am - Left Winnipeg
12:00pm - Drove through Riding Mountain National Park, again
1:00pm - Got to Dauphin
2:00pm - Truck repairs complete, truck (mostly) cleaned of oil residue
2:30pm - Left Dauphin
3:00pm - Drove through Riding Mountain National Park. Again.
2:00am - Got to Lethbridge, Alberta. I sleep now.
There’s not a whole lot to report today, and not a whole lot of pictures, either. Winnipeg is a perfectly decent city, but it’s urban and generic and not very picturesque. Compare to: Tacoma, San Jose, Riverside. But hey, it was still a good day, with some good work, good news, and [...]
Hmmf. It’s a little weird waking up a twelve hundred miles from home, part way through a road trip, and knowing that today is not going to bring progress. Ah well. I spoke to the service folks first thing and got confirmation that the problem is indeed the oil cooler. Unfortunately, [...]
A funny thing happened when I walked out of my hotel room this morning. There was the H1, just where I had parked it the night before. So far so good. But what was this huge… black… puddle? It looked suspiciously like a quart or two of motor oil. Ugh. [...]
Another great day. Within a couple of hours of leaving Thunder Bay, I drove through typical lake lowlands, some nice marsh complete with those archetypical (/ɑrtʃtɪpɪkəl/) marsh plants, marsh verging on forest, pure forest, forest with a mix of of evergreen and deciduous (naked, this time of year) trees, rocky areas, lakeside forests, and [...]
Today was a much, much better day than yesterday. Overnight, I received email from Vinny, the guy who I bought the H1 from. He had a tip on where to look for the heater problem, and with that help I was able to get the auxiliary heater going. The aux heater is [...]