Travels with BillyBob Log

WHAT'S NEW is a chronological listing of updates to the BillyBob site.

TRUCK LINKS including vendor sites for old parts, custom parts, and tools as well as sites for classic car and truck organizations

STORE Operating in association with Amazon.com, books, recordings and tools can be purchased.

PLANNING for the restoration including project schedule and cost estimates.

TRAVELS WITH BILLYBOB With apologies to Steinbeck, this area of BillyBob's Garage will be used to log the trips BillyBob and I make together.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS is the restoration of parts of BillyBob that I can accomplish without a garage.

PRE-RESTORATION includes log entries of minor repairs and and adventures between time of purchase and the time when I started restoration, a piece at a time.

JR'S KORNER JR's Korner is the history of BillyBob before I got him authored by my brother, Wm. C. Kephart.

BILLYBOB MAINTENANCE Ever changing detailing, oil change, lube, etc. maintenance routines specifically developed for BillyBob, including required tools, materials and procedures.

PARTS SHOP The Parts Shop is a repository of How-To articles. Things that I have done over and over enough times to have developed a procedure. This gives me a checklist and saves brain cells.

STEALTH SHOP Urban residence design with large integrated shop and separate living quarters for a relative or renter.

7. Macungie Run

Day 21 SITREP

Got another fairly early start today. Like Savannah, I counldn't find a Holiday Inn in St. Augustine with a vacancy so I settled for Palm Coast, Florida, about thirty miles south of St. Augustine and programmed that into Mother after the reservation was confirmed.

Friday, June 29, 2007
Day 21 PRE Check

Parked on the level again last night so the full check on BillyBob's fluids was performed. Again, everything was ok 'cept for the steering gearbox. It was not leaking out as bad as before tho' with the STP replacing the gear oil so, it was topped off with more STP Oil Treatment.


1.	Date and Time	June 29, 2007 8:00 AM
2.	Odometer	24,355
3.	Comfort Supplies	Cellphone, AAA+ membership, reading glasses, my lucky WWII Army Air Corps mechanics cap, cheap aviator sunglasses, small cooler with water and trail mix
4.	Roadtrip Supplies	Inventory
5.	Prep	pack up, mount navigator

Engage

Let Mother have the lead again for the last time and again kept track of the routes she took us on. First stretch was local roads from GA 30 to US 280 to GA 135 to US 441 to US 221 to US 129. A lot of this was country roads and small towns.

At my second gas stop of the day, I came around the truck to a "Oh Spit!" moment. At the last gas station one hundred eighty odd miles back, I left the gas cap on the bed cover when I left. Damnation! Then I looked down and saw I had gotten a mulligan for my stupid attack. There was the gas cap, setting on the jerry can handle. It was not wedged in. How it had landed and stayed there for all that distance in the wind, I will nebber figure out.

I hit the Florida state line at 12:45 pm. US 129 took us to US 41 to SR 100 to SR 121 to SR 16. On SR 16 we passed the New River Prison Facility. I had mixed feelings when a hard rain hit. I don't like driving in it much but the cool down is welcome. Here I'm following the last Humvee in a military convoy. SR 16 took us to US 1 to SR 312 and we arrived at the hotel in Palm Coast about 5 pm.

Day 21 POST Check


1.	Date and Time	June 29, 2007 5:00 PM
2.	Odometer	24,741
3.	Mileage	386
4.	Elapsed Time	9 hrs

This was a long run and I was beat. I ate some of my trail mix and hit the sheets early. I smoked my last cigar, the one I was saving to ponder a "on the side of the road" breakdown. I was pretty confident at this point that BillyBob would take us all the way without a mechanical failure.

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