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 22 SITREP

Today's leg is a short run to Uncle Tom and Aunt Marrianne's house in Melbourne, Florida. I don't have to book any more hotel reservations and I took my last continental breakfast. Got off to a leisurely start mid-morning.

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Day 22 PRE Check

Preformed BillyBob's checks and added a bit more STP Oil Treatment to the steering gear box.


1.	Date and Time	June 30, 2007 9:45 AM
2.	Odometer	24,741
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

I put Mother in passive mode and headed east to SR A-1-A. It's another great morning. I've experienced remarkably good weather during this entire roadtrip. My plan is to run down the beach road the whole way to Melbourne.

This is a particularly nice ride. A-1-A is not as congested here as it in in my neck of the woods farther down the coast. When I make my beach runs at home, I go during early morning to avoid bumper-to-bumper traffic. That is not necessary here even tho' it's a saturday.

A-1-A turned across the Intracoastal Waterway above Titusville and merged with US 1 for awhile. I kept an eye out for the turn back to the coast because the signs are sparse and easy to miss. When I hit Titusville, it was raining. It continued to rain and when I finally saw the A-1-A sign I decided to remain on US 1 because of the rain did not look as if it was going to let up. It did let up by the time I arrived in Melbourne at one in the afternoon.

Day 22 POST Check


1.	Date and Time	June 30, 2007 1:00 PM
2.	Odometer	24,855
3.	Mileage	114
4.	Elapsed Time	3 hrs, 15 minutes

When I was here on the first day, I promised my Uncle Tom and Aunt Marrianne that I would try to stop on the way back and stay overnite. We had hoped that my Cousin, Chris, and her family might come over from Orlando but they just returned from Europe and that meeting will have to wait until the next time. My Aunt and Uncle treated me to a steak dinner at a Texas Roadhouse and, once again, I went to bed with a full belly. The last time I stayed with them was when I was trying to escape Hurricane Erin and the storm followed me up the coast like a pied piper. It was much more quiet this time.