blizzard – The Blue Van – Overland Travels

Denver — Jack

admin — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:14:31 +0000

After leaving Boise, we headed down the road towards Colorado. The drive through Idaho was slow and uneventful but when we got to Wyoming, everything changed. On our way through Wyoming, we encountered a blizzard that we had to drive though — a rather hardcore blizzard. Our route was stopped a few times because of accidents made by truckers late at night. We finally made it to a packed truck stop and decided it seemed like a decent place to stay, so we established our camp thing and went to sleep. Unfortunately the roads were blocked the next day by yet more accidents from truckers and we had to stay at the truck stop for a few more hours. When the roads cleared up a little, we headed out and went towards Denver, Colorado.

I like Denver. Denver had a pretty downtown area and it was located in what seemed to be a pleasant location for living. I didn’t spend too much time in Denver today; mostly we just drove. We picked up my aunt and her husband and went to Boulder where I got to spend a while at. Boulder was really nice, I only really went to the mall thing so I can’t really judge it that much but I still liked it. I found a vintage clothes store which I browsed and almost spent all of my money at. I also found a wonderful tea store and a really cool candy store. After our Boulder exposure, we went back to our trailer and ate pizza.

Stuck at a truck stop near Laramie.

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:23:05 +0000

A blizzard followed by blowing fog caused us to pull over at the very first possible place which ended up being a crowded truck stop. Woke this morning to blinding sunshine above blowing fog with visability of about 10 feet. Stayed put as more and more and more and more trucks pulled in. The highway was closed in six different places. There is a truck pile up; between 3 and 15 trucks, depending who you ask.

Watson Lake

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:51:31 +0000

We left Whitehorse and the weather improved until about 100 miles out of Watson Lake where the roads turned to ice. Things were a little stressful until we nearly slid into a jack knifed semi truck with the trailer blocking a good part of the road. We stopped to help, the guy was pretty shaken. After awhile, another a truck arrived at the scene and we moved on, a little more stressed. The van actually had no problems, 4WD was on and the camper and van were toasty and warm.

Mark had to break the ice off the camper with a wrench.

Our sign at the Sign Post Forest

Watson Lake where the liquor store is open and busy at 9am.