The first episode in our latest travel series, Out West, is all about our trip this past fall (2024) to Moab, Utah. We started off the trip traveling from Michigan through Indiana, Illinois, and into Iowa. We dealt with Chicago traffic, crossed the Mississippi, stopped at the World's Largest Truck Stop, before stopping for the night to camp at Rock Creek State Park Campground in Iowa. The next morning we continued our travels west along I-80, through the remainder of Iowa, Nebraska, and into Colorado. We finished travel day #2 just outside of Denver at Bear Creek Lake Campground. However, when we arrived at camp, the Moore's Jeep was making some unnerving noises, a tick and a knock. We checked the fluids and looked for visible issues, but to no avail. We ran some fuel out running up and down a mountain in hopes it could have been bad fuel, but still no progress. Panic started to set in. We found an automotive shop open on Sundays for the next morning to have it looked at. Unfortunately, the end result was some valve issues as well as a rod bearing going bad, and the viable option was to replace the motor. The Moore's took some time to think over their options and discussed with Elizabeth and I about what the trip would look like pending their decisions. In the end, Saul from the shop threw in a rental Jeep for free, so the Moore's had him replace the motor while we adventured into the mountains for a few days until Grey was ready to go. We then had to swap as much of their gear over to the Red rental Jeep and headed to REI to pick up a ground tent and then Walmart for an air mattress. Afterwards we headed south to our friends the Tootle's in Colorado Springs to visit shortly, and then we took the Moore's over to Garden of the Gods Park. We finished Day 3 at an absolutely epic campsite in the middle of the mountains. Elizabeth cooked up some incredible chicken quesadillas for dinner and we enjoyed a picturesque campfire. Episode 1 was a bit of a whirlwind with a lot of highs and a lot of lows. We made the most of the situation in a very difficult time, but pushed on. Episode 2 starts on Day 4, in the mountains, and continues our adventure "Out West".
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