Bike Retrieval

The truck ran fine all the way to San Francisco and back.......1360 miles.  I had a few tense moments when the check engine light came on a few times, but it always went out again.  Usually the CEL is some kind of smog control issue and on this old truck (1987) it can't be expected to be smog compliant all the time.

I was a bit concerned about loading Jenny's bike since she doesn't have a nice ramp like we have at our house.  So Jen asked her neighbor if he would help and here we are planning on how to do it:

Got it done with no problems:

To make sure somebody didn't try to steal it overnight, I set my secret ignition kill switch (left over from when we lived in Riverside California), and backed the truck up against the garage so it couldn't be unloaded:

So tomorrow we ride.  We will not know what route we will take until morning because one of the passes we planned to go over may have snow.  I will check a road cam at the pass in the morning and see if it is clear.  I suspect it will not be, in which case we will have to go down the Columbia gorge on hwy 14.  This could be a problem for a couple of reasons.  One is that it increases the length of an already fairly long day, and the other is that the freeway on the Oregon side of the river is closed due to downed trees and rocks from a forest fire.  This could put a lot of traffic on our side of the river on hwy 14.  We shall see.