Climate Express

Yeah, I was just having a moment earlier. Had good miles last week, good miles this week, and will be rolling good miles over into next week. Spending a 34 here in Oak Grove, MO and then will have an easy drive over to Pueblo on Monday morning. Gonna have to stop into the Awful Waffle tomorrow for breakfast lol. I've been craving their chocolate chip waffles lately, and haven't had the pleasure of the Waffle House crowd in a while

The shop is great for sure -- it's nice that Climate has it well staffed and has certain techs that are better are different things. It makes getting in and out a breeze.

Those deer are scary when they show up on a busy interstate like I-24. They always catch me off guard more if it's not somewhere like Wisconsin or Michigan where I expect to see them. One time, I hit 2 in one shot in Iowa, but luckily, we had deer guards on all of the trucks.

1291 drives like a dream. I didn't realize how much worse whatever was wrong with 1301 made it ride in general -- bumps, banking, etc.

 

I'm glad my mental math checked out with your years of experience here lol. I noticed they had good reviews and street parking, so it should be a nice way to start Tuesday morning.

The best part about the drive out to Pueblo is knowing it's another easy 665 miles back this direction.

I usually always went US-40 to CO-96 since the speed limit is basically governed trucks speeds, but I'm fine with their routing too. I guess the risk of being in the true middle of nowhere if there's a breakdown with no fuel stops except a single Love's isn't worth saving the 40 miles though. I recommend it though if they'll let you on your way to Pueblo at some point. It's beautiful and peaceful seeing nothing but empty plains in all directions with almost zero traffic.

 

Use Limon flying hook for filling up before going to pueblo. They do that cuz if ya gotta go on west to get taters, you will then have enough fuel to get back to salina ks for fuel. Same reason you may sometimes see that on the way out to denver, ya might have both salina an then a top off at aurora co. It's cuz if ya go on to monte vista then you'll be able to get back to salina with they're routing.

 

Haven't ever been to Monte Vista, so I'd enjoy that. Really haven't seen much of CO at all besides I-25/76/70 east of CO

 

Yea by the way, I think I had posted on here before about lucas telling us that we could use that Lamar pilot if we needed to. Scratch that now for you guys because it's not a pilot anymore. I loaded wheat here while back south of there on 385. It is now a T/A Express truck stop.

 

If you do get the opportunity to ever go to monte vista from the denver area, Do yourself a favor and go west on 70 to 470 south and go down 285 to monte vista. That side of 470 is not a toll road, so ya don't gotta be concerned about violating the company toll policy about avoiding Colorado Tolls. 285 is a nice scenic pretty ride, IMHO. A lotta guys don't like to fuss with that way. Miles wise it is shorter than 25 south to wahlsenburg, ( not sure I am spelling that correctly ) then 160 over to monte vista. I always ran it cuz I liked the scenery.