Getting down from the mountains to the grasslands was quite a trip.
As we were coming out of the Big Horn National Forest heading for Buffalo, WY we stopped at a break check turnout. We’ve stopped at them before, but this was the first one that had major signage.
Rather than the typical runaway truck ramps made from soft dirt and loosely packed gravel this one had a cable catch system that kinda reminded me of catch cables for jets.
I felt like I was looking at pictures like I saw when I took my driver ed course and they showed scary pictures of crashes. Oh boy. I’m nervous. John is ready to go and is feeling confident.
Ok, here we go!
It was a long, very winding road, but the coach did great. The engine break did its job and the breaks didn’t over heat. As we approached the truck ramp we were both relieved.
We so never want to use one of these ramps.
Soon after we passed through Buffalo and were on our way to Gillette Wyoming the engine started overheating. We were on nice flat highways but the temperature kept climbing, even after resting the coach for an hour at a rest stop.
Looks like we will be spending sometime in this area until we get this figured out.
Becky and I are very familiar with that stretch of highway. We’ve old and dear friends living in Buffalo. What the signs didn’t tell you is the tale of the guy and his wife coming down the hill in a big class A like yours who freaked out, overheated his brakes and plowed right thru the stop light at the bottom in town where the road T’s causing major property damage….true story and no he didn’t survive. Hence the truck ramp and signage