Thursday, October 11, 2018

Day 4 GCol Torrey to Chinle, Az

We got off to a nice start to the day but decided to put the hood (top-US) up and that was a very good decision as the weather was a bit stormy for most of the day.  Shawnee B. A> needed a bilge pump to drain out all the water that kept coming in on the drivers side foot well.  Might have an idea as the water was incredible muddy so I think it's coming in from underneath the car.  When the rain stops I may go out and see if there if one of the 'bungs' in the floor pan has come out.  Today's journey also involved some pretty rough road coming down the Moki Dugway short cut.  So rough that I have heard a rumor that one of the cars destroyed a wheel.  Their was one point where I was pretty worried we might have taken out our oil pan.   We had done the Moki on the very first Oil leak but the gravel road was in much better condition and we were going up instead of down.
Starting point this morning, very nice little place to stay and the food was very good!

Clouds building up

Getting darker

Dumping on us


We stopped at "Bridges National Park" for a break and the weather let up for a few min.

From L to R: Jan, LLyod, Michael, David (F18 driver on JL) and David's uncle David

View with LLyod to the side


Glamor shot by David

One of the Bridges

Heading into monument Valley, we were going to take a detour here and explore the valley but the weather was marginal and the cars were lined up a couple of blocks to get in.

All in all, a good day, will have dinner here at the Holliday Inn tonight and looking forwards to it as we didn't get lunch today-doubt I'll melt away but hoping that they have some good Mexican food.
That's all for today, stay tuned for further exciting adventures ;-)
Cheers,
Lynn

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