Driving 25 MPH on the Interstate

Yesterday was a rough day. Things did not go as smoothly as the day before. We headed out from Amarillo at about 10:30 am Texas time and from the start the truck was acting strange. We were trying to get on the highway to head north on 287 but the truck just would not go. For some reason it was not getting near enough power. We were going over little hills outside of Amarillo and it was just crawling over and we were thinking if it can't make it over these hills then there is NO way it will make it over Raton Pass at the New Mexico/Colorado border. So, I called the Penske truck help line and spoke with a guy that told us how to restart the truck's computer system and said that should fix our problem. It didn't. I called back and talked to another guy who said we needed to add water to something next the the something. This was a daunting task because neither Collin nor I know anything about cars and even less about 26 foot diesel trucks. Honestly we didn't even know how to open the hood of the truck. We finally got the hood open and found the place where the water was supposed to go and poured some in. The truck started working better after that but the engine light on the dash board never went off the entire trip.  

Here is Collin trying to figure out where to put the water.

We were considering stopping in Raton to have the truck looked at by someone who knew what they were doing but decided that it was running ok by then and continued on towards the 2000 ft. pass. We slowly started the climb and by slowly I mean S-L-O-W-L-Y. This is where the title of my blog comes in. We seriously inched over that pass at 25 miles per hour. I thought as some point we are just going to start rolling backwards. Here is a picture to prove it...if you look at the dash board you can see we are going 25 mph and you can see the highway up ahead. It was pretty crazy.  

Thankfully, after a lot of frustration and even more prayers we made it over the pass and it was pretty much smooth sailing from there. We finally arrived in Denver at about 7:15 Colorado time, which means it took us 9 hours and 45 min to make a 6 hour drive. Needless to say it was a LONG day. We were so happy to finally be here because there were times when we honestly didn't know if we were going to make it. I think God must have pushed our truck over that mountain.

We are so excited to be able to move into our apartment today and feel blessed to have several people willing to come over and help us out. It will be a daunting task to get all of our stuff up to the 3rd floor but I know we will get it done. I will post some pictures of our apartment after we get all moved in.

Here are a couple more pictures of our trip yesterday.