Long Distance Winter Trip Advice

Post by **abscate** » 25 Dec 2021, 13:51

Try to grab some road trip pics… forum below!!

Post by **BlackBart** » 25 Dec 2021, 16:21

I get scolded by Mrs BB every time I raise the phone to just click out the windshield!

Post by **BlackBart** » 25 Dec 2021, 16:40

I was just outside on a ladder, washing windows, in December, in Colorado, in a t shirt.....

Monday we’re driving through temps from 15 to zero F.......

Post by **matthew1** » 25 Dec 2021, 20:07

BlackBart wrote: ↑25 Dec 2021, 11:16 So great to meet you, Matt! I love your house, your neighborhood, your photographs.

Thanks BB. That was just one wing of my estate. I have eight or ten wings... I don't know really, I haven't had time to walk them all yet.

I should have shown you the grand French gardens also, and the helicopter and horse stables. I knew you were on a timeline, so I had to cut some things out. Modern problems.

Post by **volvolugnut** » 26 Dec 2021, 08:22

Ah, the problems of the affluent, so much stuff, so little time.

volvolugnut

Post by **BlackBart** » 26 Dec 2021, 16:00

Whelp....on the way back north tomorrow. Looks to be more what we expected. There seems to be an arctic front sitting between Casper WY and Sheridan WY. Mid 30s and high SW winds in Casper, then single digits F and north wind north of there. Wind chills well below zero F. Snowpacked, scattered snow & ice, light snow.

Post by **matthew1** » 26 Dec 2021, 16:56

volvolugnut wrote: ↑26 Dec 2021, 08:22 Ah, the problems of the affluent, so much stuff, so little time.

volvolugnut

Post by **cuhfs** » 26 Dec 2021, 17:17

Glad it worked out for you. I hope to get out there some day. Just to weigh in on this interesting topic, much like cn90 stated above, I too am starting to use the long trip "rental car" strategy when traveling with family (passengers) and going far... for about weeks trip. Recently did a NJ to FL run 2500 miles round trip.., rented for a week at about $425 all in. Rented a standard SUV but got an unexpected luxury upgrade to GMC Armada which is bigger and more spacious than even our XC90... Wife and MIL were very pleased, and made for a 100% worry free and extremely comfortable trip. That said however... if I was going alone... to FL, CA or anywhere I'd take any of my daily drivers in the fleet and not think twice. There are some comforts a 2021 car has that the 2006 or 2004 do not (and less noises). (I would not trade and be captive to the new car dealer)... but I do justify an occasional rental as almost like a free perk for doing all the work on my own cars and saving thousands of dollars.

Post by **BlackBart** » 27 Dec 2021, 06:10

T minus Betty launch oh six hundred.

Post by **abscate** » 27 Dec 2021, 11:01

OOOOFFF

CASPER, Wyo. – Interstate 80 between Cheyenne to Evanston is closed on Monday morning due to winter weather conditions, according to WYDOT.

Portions of the interstate started closing on Sunday afternoon and remained closed from the Utah border to Cheyenne as of 6 a.m. on Monday. Estimated reopening times range from “unknown” to later Monday morning.

Other highways closed this morning are US 30 between Granger and Cheyenne, and US 287 between Laramie and Medicine Bow.

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