The Little Engine That Could?

I suppose the biggest story in this post is about the old engine that is travelling (at HIGH volume) to Alaska perched between Liz and Myself. There are some pretty impressive grades, that we have to tackle in First Gear…

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Reverse Petro-Tourism

Our route to Canada was planned with a couple of very practical things in mind: Buy Diesel    and Buy Propane. ESPECIALLY The former is WAY MORE expensive in Canada; we’ll have to buy some eventually, but we might as…

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The EXACT cost of Stupidity…

Our Alaska Voyage is now well underway. We made it to Vancouver as “planned” so we could group (can’t “re”group unless you have grouped first!) with our travelling companions, the Enfingers. Actually, we met up with them in Olympia, WA.…

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California Here We Come [Sucker]

Our Bluebird Musical horn plays that song [I added “Sucker”] , along with 31 others including RV WHERE YET’s Theme Song: Roll Out The Barrel… .. Leaving Phoenix we had about half a tank of diesel. In that situation, I…

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Almost Texans…

We returned to Weatherford Texas, where we discovered that Max Hendrix had NOT sold the bus, though he claimed the neighbors were interested. Not so interested, apparently, that the police were summoned. While at the Max-cave, I completed the installation…

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RANDOM THOUGHTS!

Thought for the Day (Click me!) My Dad’s 90th Birthday celebration in Minneapolis was SPECTACULAR. Celebrating a life well-lived, and far from done. There was a bit of nostalgia, some well-meaning trash-talking and general festivity at a brunch hosted magnificently…

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Texas-sized Hospitality

So, we arrived at Weatherford and Chez Hendrix having passed through another line of impressive storms.  In years past, we always watched on TV Weather the Bright Yellow and RED storms that seem to sweep across Texas, Oklahoma and such…

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