Aug. 22, 2011... We were scheduled to meet our friends Makasha and Katherine Roske in Boulder for dinner, so we left Lake Jackson early in the morning and began the nine hour drive. Soon after we began to drive southeast across Wyoming, the Xterra began to show signs of problems. As we accelerated it would begin to shudder and balk - like the engine was missing a lot. The problem only worsened as the morning went on. We suspected we had taken bad gasoline, but there were other more serious possibilities as well, ie. the drive shaft, or the transmission. The biggest issue was that the land we were passing through was empty... literally empty for miles and miles. It was the Shawnee Indian Reservation.
We went for many hours nursing the Xterra along hoping we could make it to Laramie for repairs at a dealership. We had no cell service or 3G. It was exciting.
Finally in a small town called Rawlins, just about 50 miles from Laramie, we filled up with high test Phillips 66. We were determined to make it to Laramie where there was a Nissan dealership. Within a few minutes, the shuddering lessened and by the time we hit Laramie, it was running beautifully! So we decided to make our journey into Boulder.
We made our dinner with the Roske's and settled into a most wonderful conclusion to a very stressful day.
Here are some shots from the day:
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| Miles of this in a sputtering car |
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| More and More |
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| All of it beautiful |
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| Sunset over Boulder as we drive in |
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| Just as we got to dinner with Makasha and Katherine |
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