Go read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 then come back, I’ll wait.
After about a week of waiting to hear from John’s Auto Care Center letting me know my $700 part was in, on Halloween morning I called them. The part was there, it came through their door late on the previous Friday. We scheduled a day for us to bring the car in, Tuesday the 8th of November (today.)
We were watching the weather closely as snow was predicted for yesterday and today in southern Oregon. For us to get to Medford we have to cross over the Cascades at five thousand feet where the snowfalls are always heavier and the temps were already just barely rising above freezing during the day.
Late last week it looked like the snow was going to start on Monday night into Tuesday then quit, so we made a hotel reservation for Monday night hoping to beat the snow over the mountain Monday morning. This way we could drive back in the afternoon on Tuesday when it would be the warmest and any daytime traffic might have made leeway on clearing a path through any snow.
Midmorning Monday (yesterday) after looking at a couple of traffic cams along our route I made the command decision to call off the trip. The roads were just wet on the first one nearest Klamath Falls, Doak Mountain, but the one nearer to the high point of the trip, Lake of the Woods, was white with just black top visible in two tracks in each lane.
I’m glad we didn’t go because looking at those cams now, about the time we might have been coming home, Doak Mountain & Lake of the Woods look like no fun to be driving on. Probably could have made it if the situation was life or death, but why take a trip like that if you don’t need to.
After looking at the weather for the following week where it was going to be in the 40s I called John’s and rescheduled for next Tuesday the 15th.