As you head through Saskatchewan you can test out the top speed
Back from the trip and nothing against Sask (only province with a normal government) but the highways I took were absolutely horrible for anything over 50mph especially lowered. As far as the trip east and south I managed an amazing number in the upper 25's,to do this I averaged roughly 57 mph. The weather the first 36 hours was brutal ie rain rain and more rain. My sister was absolutely shocked to see me parked in her driveway when she got home from baseball. She gave me an earful for missing my 25th weeding anniversary so she phoned my wife to apologize only to find out I had ordered her a massive amount of flowers.
The trip back started out good for the first hour (truck was spotless) but north of Flint Mich the skies opened up and I swear besides cows and goats falling from the skies I saw chickens, hogs, sheep, dogs, cats as well. Besides one other vehicle that was commercial no one else had the hazards on and our speeds had dropped to 30mph well 99% had dropped the other 1% that had zero brains whipped by the rest of us like we were standing still.
I should mention that with the BellTech 2/4 drop which I had installed at a shop in business for 30+ years the truck felt smooth as if it was still factory equipped, glad for that I must admit. As to speed like mentioned on the way east I kept it to 57-60 mph so great mileage, on the way home I averaged 5 less mpg's so the speedo was a wee bit higher, nothing crazy but 5 mph over the limit. The last day I left Cuthburtson Mont a 6am, last town on Hwy 2 before entering North Dakota and on this hwy the speed limit is 70mph so I pushed 75-77 and pulled into Shelby 5 hours later. Then the treat I-15 north to the border the speed limit is 80 so again I hit 86-87 mph, what a blast passing trucks doing 50-60 at that speed. The only issue is getting down to speed for the off ramp to the duty free shop, after doing high 80's 20mph seems so slow but the lowering helped a little with this. I wonder how the Nascar boys do the 200 to 55 thing at Daytona. Our neck of the woods has a 68mph limit so I did 74 and was home by 3pm, a ten hour day and **** home.
The first thing I did was detail the truck, literally the first thing as the bugs are easier to get off fresh. Damn did it stink, kind of like decaying fish but the truck has been detailed and waxed already so she is good to show her face in public again.
My wife gets her holidays in the next two weeks so it's back down to Montana to search from one end to he other for pic opportunities. I generally only shoot old abandoned homesteads and rusted out vehicles for art work. People seem to love my work as do I. I have been all over 20-25 states with my camera and Montana is the gold mine with Missouri coming in second, Kansas third.
