Yesterday, afternoon, I got home from another quick trip to San Antonio. The #1 reason that I went was to deliver a spiral staircase that I had built. I stopped in and visited Wes for a while, but I couldn't take him away from his way too many projects for very long. Then I went in and dropped off the staircase. Thanks for the advice on getting into town before the traffic picked up at 3:30, Wes. I left there at about 5:00 and there was still a lot more traffic than when I had gone there. At least it was mostly going the other way. Then I went to visit dreed86 to look at his truck. We didn't manage to get it started, but I think that we made some good progress and answered some questions. Then , before I left, his wife gave me some food that she had made and I ate WAY too much of it, but it was worth it. I had to pull over and sleep for a couple of hours after that. On the route that I took going south through Texas, I didn't try to keep up with the 70-75 MPH speed limits because the road was so rough and twisty. The staircase had to sit high because of all of the extras that went along with it. It big enough that I could feel the wind drag and was heavy enough that I could feel the extra body roll from being so high in the air. It felt like carrying my slide in camper so I didn't try to take corners at race speeds. Maybe 1/2 mile south of Throckmorton, TX, there was a deer standing on the shoulder of the road staring at me. If it had been around here (where the whitetails are crazy) it would have run right out in front of me and I couldn't have avoided hitting it. Thankfully, it was not so it acted normally and watched me go by. Because of that and all of the splatters on the road, I backed down from the 70 MPH speed limit to no ore than 60. I couldn't believe the numbers of splatters on the road and the number of animals laying in the ditch. I saw 5 dead hogs. One was big enough that it would have totalled out a semi. One hog was just some black, coarse hair on top of a pile of splattered guts. That would have been quite a ride if I would have hit it. Then, on the way back north, in northern Texas, I started running into some freezing fog. It was extremely thick in some places. As it was getting light, the fog was being burned off by the sun so I was able to run the speed limit just fine. There must have been some very thick fog in parts of Oklahoma since the frost was heavy enough that it almost looked like snow. Other than that, there wasn't much drama to the drive. My pictures aren't the best. You can barely see the staircase in one since I took it in the middle of the night. There was three deer along Wes's drive. I took a picture, but the sun really made the scratches on my window visible so you can only see one clearly. The sun also affected the picture I took at the customer's house since I wanted to hide their address. I took some of the Wichita mountains in Oklahoma, but due to the flash against my windows in the fog, most don't look very good. "Mountains" is a misleading name. From what I saw, they are big rocky hills sticking out of the prairie. They are still cool to look at and I may have to go back there some day to see them again.
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). Planning on pulling the front clip, possibly just the radiator support.
