Forecast delivered another blow of winter nasty. Sun was last nice day for maybe this weekend. Monday conditions changed, I rested because of. Tues became nastier with rain and wind. Drove out to paved spot for the night but told can’t camp at scenic overlooks just as light faded. dashed out to MP4 with hopes dirt was firm and would remain that way in the morning to drive out. Van stumbles at a low rpm which negates slow driving speed over ruts. Score the first spot. Temp dropped and rain changed to snow blown by strong wind. Van rocked during the night. I had opened the roof fan while cooking dinner then shut it for the night, in the morning it was frozen shut as was the ground. Please van start and drive out was what I worried about all night. Van started and I bounced over ruts to pavement back to VOC. Check engine control light turned back on and engine runs rough. Made VOC and spent the day there. Little solar gain but fan hatch did melt free. Spent night on side drive in VOC. Cold, 23 degrees out, 51 inside.
My body is not happy matching van’s health. Seems my blood pressure is climbing. Drove up to Instant Care in Sedona for understanding. I have been recording BP from my home device and medical instruments. At IC the nurse took my BP, result was 120/70 which is well below my data. She tried again on other arm, same result. I brought my device that agreed with my data which was not per theirs. IC said I need to see primary DR for diagnosis as they did with acute and mine is chronic. Concern was their reading was not correct so I visited a dr office for their check which agreed with both my data and device revealing for me elevated BP. I will make appointment w/ primary up in Flag.
Then over to laundromat for Thurs wash. I saw a CA licensed car parked there with 2 muddy mountain bikes, handicap license to boot. I took pics of same as below. Woman jumps out of car yelling at me not having permission to take pics of her car. I asked her if she rides her local trails when muddy.
DR appointment in Flag on Mon, will prolly rent a car for the day for the round trip.
Van work won’t be done till late next week hopefully. Will drop transmission and prolly install new flex plate.
Sunny at 40 degrees but well below freezing at night creating dreaded free thaw that above riders trashed our trails on.