Monday, June 26, 2006
Maybe Snowie's OK
On Sunday we stayed around camp at Big Sur. The kids played in the river in the morning and played Barbie’s in Aunt Toni’s tent trailer ALL afternoon. L I went for a bike ride in the afternoon 1200’ up a dirt road (same one I did last time we were here).
Today I got up early (6:30) and took off for Monterey to get Snowie checked out. The dealership in Monterey was quite helpful and got on it pretty quickly. They concluded that it was detonation because of too low octane gas. I think that seems possible, although we’ve always burned regular and never had a problem before (and it wasn’t particularly hot) and it didn’t sound exactly like pinging to me. I’ll burn premium the rest of the trip. I’m glad it was something simple (at least I hope it was).
At noon we headed off for Pfeiffer beach. It turned out to be a nice afternoon – warm and not windy like it has been all the other times we’ve been there. We had a great time.
This evening I planned the drive for Wednesday. We hope to leave by 7:00 in the morning after having eaten breakfast. We’ll see if we can pull that off. We’re off to Barstow. There were a number of options in terms of route, but I’ve decided we should take 1 North -> 156 -> 101 -> 46 -> I-5 -> 58.
Today I got up early (6:30) and took off for Monterey to get Snowie checked out. The dealership in Monterey was quite helpful and got on it pretty quickly. They concluded that it was detonation because of too low octane gas. I think that seems possible, although we’ve always burned regular and never had a problem before (and it wasn’t particularly hot) and it didn’t sound exactly like pinging to me. I’ll burn premium the rest of the trip. I’m glad it was something simple (at least I hope it was).
At noon we headed off for Pfeiffer beach. It turned out to be a nice afternoon – warm and not windy like it has been all the other times we’ve been there. We had a great time.
This evening I planned the drive for Wednesday. We hope to leave by 7:00 in the morning after having eaten breakfast. We’ll see if we can pull that off. We’re off to Barstow. There were a number of options in terms of route, but I’ve decided we should take 1 North -> 156 -> 101 -> 46 -> I-5 -> 58.
# posted by Craig @ 6:59 PM 
