ill be leaving Monday afternoon from Cornville, AZ going up I 17 to I 40 to I 25 to Colorado Springs in our MCI 7 towing about 10,000 trailer with our Jeep and Honda Trike. Looking forward to visiting with mu Nieces' and Nephews, although one is A Denver fire fighter who just was sent to Organ for 14 days of 16 hours a day work to help stamp out one of their fires. Then down to Pueblo to see friends the to Walsenburg to check on our property there which was just recently broken into again, nothing to take this time as they took it all last time. Anyway we are looking forward to two weeks away, maybe will see some one on the road.
ED (Greydog & Janet.
MCI 7
Ed, I looked at an ex air force bus in that town in 2000. I don't think I have ever been back.
Good luck.
Tom Caffrey
Hi Ed - how was the CO trip? We're planning on heading out that way soon. Any bus pictures for us?
Kind Regards, Phil
Ed and Janet we in Durango till Sat seems like 1/2 of Arizona is in this RV park ;D
Clifford if you time you and Sonya should take the train ride, its really fun and beautiful country. Urey is very pretty to see but a lot of driving windy roads.
Dave
Ed has a 500HP 8V92TA in his MC7-- plenty of power for towing a trailer up the mountains. I installed a water spray system on his radiators a couple 2-3 years back and he has not had an overheating problem since.
--Geoff
Ed, have a great trip. One thing I appreciate about you and Janet is that you get out and do your thing. You just don't sit around sucking power off a pole somewhere dreaming about it.
You guys do it.
Kudo's.
Don't let anyone use your bathrooom.
BCO
Quote from: Dave5Cs on July 16, 2015, 05:49:40 PM
Clifford if you time you and Sonya should take the train ride, its really fun and beautiful country. Urey is very pretty to see but a lot of driving windy roads.
Dave
The absolute best way to do it. Is ride the train up, and take the bus back. Otherwise, I am sure Dave will agree here, it is a "long day."
BCO
We got home on Thursday 7-16-2015 we drove 1700 miles in the bus and as Geoff said his mister system works great. We have also had a totally separate water cooled trans cooler installed where it is cooled first and then goes into the original system. Have to watch the heat like a hawk but goes over a 8000 foot hill and keeps on going. While in Colorado we also rode over 900 miles on the trike with friends plus saw family and visited and stayed on our property in Walsenburg. Plan on doing that again next year. Next is going to Lake Powell for 3 weeks after Labor day.
Giving Greydog a few weeks rest and then go at it again.
Keeping that 8V92 cool is a challenge.
ED & Janet
Quote from: edvanland on July 18, 2015, 09:26:15 AM
Giving Greydog a few weeks rest and then go at it again.
Keeping that 8V92 cool is a challenge.
ED & Janet
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Diffidently ride the train up and ride on of 1 Arrow Stage Setra 417 back like Don said 6 1/2 hrs is to long on a train moving 10 miles a hour and stopping for water every 30 minutes.
LOL don't wear white clothing the soot from the train engine is nasty stuff it will turn your gray hair black
It's a neat town we stayed at the United RV Park the owners winter in Az we meet Tim and wife years ago.The trolley stops in front of their park for $.50 you can ride the trolley to downtown parking is terrible downtown.
If you ride bicycles like we do Durango is real bike friendly,you hang it on the trolley and ride every where.
FWIW diesel is $2.63 a gal not bad for a tourist town and the city park is very nice with a free dump station and water.Plenty to do around this place we spent all day at Trembles hot springs.This is the only town I ever saw with WalMart on the destination sign on a shuttle bus ;D