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 23 SITREP

I had breakfast pastries and coffee to get started. Aunt Marrianne wanted to fix more for me but I begged off. I'm gonna get beyond my fighting weight here if I don't watch it. I gave Don McLendon ("DowntoSea" at Stovebolt.com) another call at Satelite Beach for another visit at his house.

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Day 23 PRE Check

Added some more STP to the steering box this morning and checked the engine oil . . . Still hunky-dory.


1.	Date and Time	July 1, 2007 10:00 AM
2.	Odometer	24,855
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

Like my aunt and uncle, I had visited with Don on the first day and now we would complete the roadtrip with another visit on the last day. "Mother" still remembered where Don lived and we motored over there. I was too early for beer and we sat out by his canal and had coffee. Don has a teardrop trailer on order for his truck when it is completed and I'm thinking along similar lines. Spending roadtrip nights at a campground is more in keeping with the spirit of the roadtrip experience than hotel living.

After a plesant hour or so with Don, BillyBob and I hit the traffic again for the final leg of the Macungie Run. Mother was in passive mode again. Don told me how to get back out to A-1-A on the beach from his place. We followed A-1-A for some time until it turned inland to US 1 again. We stayed on US 1 after that until we hit Stuart, Florida.

Coming over the St. Lucie River bridge in Stuart, I made a impulsive decision. My friends, Bill and Fay Clark live a few blocks from here. The last time BillyBob and I were to their house was at Christmas. Decided to take a chance that they were home and stop by for a few minutes.

Fay was home and Bill was within cell phone distance. Had a beer and caught up. Got fay's email address and alerted her to the memorial to her father that I posted at the end of the Yeehaw Junction Summit log entry. I managed to drag them out for the BillyBob photoshoot when I left.

I let Mother take us home. She kept us on US 1 until after we entered West Palm Beach then ran us west a bit out around the airport before coming back to US 1 shortly before entering Boca Raton. I was getting close to home now.

Last gas stop. The first gas stop on the first day is coming up on the right. We will top off the tank for the milege calculations before traveling the final two blocks to the Krash Lab office to see if Wingnut, the parrot, survived.

Day 23 POST Check


1.	Date and Time	July 1, 2007 6:00 PM
2.	Odometer	25,011
3.	Mileage	156
4.	Elapsed Time	8 hrs

We're home! 4,783 miles in 23 days and BillyBob did not break down! Wingnut was ok! I went home to the Krash Pad and it was ok too! Put the remaining three bottles of JR's "Crank Case Stout" in the freezer for thirty minutes and drank them with a fresh cigar. Two weeks in the pickup bed had not harmed them. Life is good. So ends the Macungie Run.

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