Saturday, July 18, 2015

Slight change of plans

Today is a day of "off and on" showers as the 50% chance would predict.

Thursday as we were returning from Titusville we came to a fork in the road with our route back to the campground being the left fork.  The right fork was to be the original intended route for Monday's departure from this area.  Just before we made our turn I saw a vertical clearance sign that concerned me.  Yesterday back here in camp I checked that route out using Google Earth where I can actually drive the road and see what it looks like.  A few miles from that fork in the road this route crossed the Allegheny River with a truss bridge that was posted as 13'-3" clearance and it was a long multi-span bridge.  Definitely this couldn't be a route that semi-trucks could use as they are normally 13'-6" height.

We have a measured height of 12'-11" which would allow a full big 4" clearance and should not cause us a problem.  Instead I decided not to chance a bounce from a rough road and selected an alternate path for our route toward Ohio in order to save our AV unit for sure.  This new route added about 12 miles to our trip and maybe 20 minutes to the drive so we will just have to leave a little bit earlier than originally planned.

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