Yesterday, I was planning on going up to Moose River Plains to do some fishing, hiking, paddling, and plinking with the air rifle I had picked out and was going to pick up on way up. The pellets that air rifles use are very affordable and easy to get unlike .22 LR ammo which is next to impossible to get right now. It was going to be a really fun long weekend.

I had my truck all packed, and started heading up there with the kayak on the roof, and my truck was rear-ended in one of Albany’s many construction zone by another motorist. The kayak rode just fine during the crash, but things got pretty crumbled up on bed, bumper, and tailgate. While I was able to continue on and safely to get an exit ramp along the expressway to wait for the police, but apparently damage to vehicle’s gas tank or emissions system made it impossible to restart, and it had to get towed to the body shop. I was so hoping to continue on my trip.

I am a somewhat sore this morning, but for the most part I’m uninjured. None of the camping equipment that I had brought with me was damaged, and everything will be fine once the truck is rebuilt again. It’s not like my truck hasn’t been to my local body shop before, after it was struck in a hit and run crash two years ago on the driver-side, while parked at home while I was at work.

I’ve never liked the factory rear bumper on the Silverado. It’s made out of chromed sheet metal, and every little tiny ding and dent show up on it — and that’s just ugly. I am eventually thinking of putting an off-road bumper on the back, so it will hold up better when I bump things in the woods backing up, or even just snag the sides of bumper with an electric fence, as I did when the truck was almost brand new, years ago.

Certainly this all sucks. But at least everything else I’ve added on in the truck, like the CB radio and inverter are undamaged. I’m sure insurance, once it’s all worked out, will get things pretty much to same way there were before the collision.