Sandy Johnson it's been 2 years, did you make it to the hotel????
Oh damn, did I not post somewhere about that trip? It was a good one!
My flight made it as far as Salt Lake and then the connector to Missoula got canceled due to weather while we're sitting on the tarmac.
So they get us off the plane I scrambled and got hotels canceled, booked, and the first(only one that day) flight I could get to Missoula the next day.
I headed back to my new salt lake hotel, drank some whiskey and hopped in bed. Woke up at 7 am, grabbed breakfast and headed to the airport
I jumped on the plane and was looking out the window at SLC construction when I noticed one of those cement mixers that
2big bronco hadn't seen in real life yet, so I dutifully took a pic to send to him
My flight landed in me Missoula at lunch time, which isn't ideal considering I needed to catch a ride to the RV dealer, inspect the rig, sign all the paperwork, go pick up supplies, and then drive to Idaho to camp for the night.
I do all the things and make it back to a walmart just outside of Missoula again(headed to I-90) at 4pm
You sort of forget all the chit you need for a totally empty RV if you haven't had a new one in a while. Thank god wal-mart had an "RV" isle. I was buying toilet paper, sewer and water hoses, wheel chocks, water pressure regulator, sheets, a blanket, pillow, one knife, fork, spoon, paper plates, snacks, alcohol, etc. All I had brought with me on the flight was a small carry-on backpack.
I got on I-90 about 5:30 and it was a race against the weather as there was a storm on the way and one thing I didn't buy was chains.
It got dark and cold and started snowing. RV said 9* out. I was hoping the heater in this thing was good and luckily it was.
Then the snow hit and things got wild. A semi passed me doing like 80, I watched him hit a patch of black ice in the fast lane just after that, and he ended up almost hitting me before recovering in the emergency lane. It was snowing so hard that I my weak-ass RV headlights were not doing much. Also didn't help that it was snowing sideways and blowing me all over the road. I think the last 2 hours of the drive were at 50 mph or less. Didn't see anyone else on the road other than 1 or 2 more semis. No pictures because that was a two hands on the wheel kind of night.
I rolled into Idaho Falls to camp about 10pm. There was fresh snow everywhere and the RV park wasn't plowed yet. As I drove in, I saw a woman taking out her trash pause to watch me drive by. I thought that was odd until I discovered right where she was standing was a particularly deep patch of snow. A little bit of panic and 5k rpms later and I got out of it and found my campsite(with luckily barely any snow on it).
After that it was beer and supercross replay time
