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.

10. Hutchinson Roadtrip Day 14

SITREP

The lodgings in Greenville were across the parking lot from a Cracker Barrel. I had a nice bacon cheeseburger and cider for supper. No beer on the menu and I'm not gonna jump in BillyBob and ride around looking for one. This ain't the old days. continental breakfast was good enuf in the morning too.

friday, May 30th 2008
Day 14 PRE Check

Checked all the fluids and tires. Topped off the radiator with coolant and steering gear box with STP. No new drips at the rear tires that I can see. Told Mother to head for St. Augustine and got set for another hot day.


1.	Date and Time	May 30, 2008 about 9 am *
2.	Odometer	32,249
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	Mount navigator, setup GPS tracker

Engage

Mother started us out on two-lane blacktop and small towns today. I think we're still in Greenville here but I'm not sure. Still the cool part of the day but I'm confident I will drink all four bottles of water before the day is done.

By mid-morning, Mother was taking us thru a little berg by the name of Enterprise, Alabama. That set off a flag in my head. Enterprise is where the boss's cobra, Big Red, was built. A couple of months ago, I ordered air filter caps for the injector stacks. Haven't received them yet but my credit card wasn't charged either. Since I happened to be here, I thought I might just drop by the shop and pick up a set. Stopped in a parking lot and tried to get a wireless connection for Firefly, my laptop. No joy. I called the office back in Boca and the boss's assistant, Virginia, brought up the builder's website for me. Address is a P.O. Box but there is a phone number. I called and got the builder on the phone. He still has the order but his supplier isn't getting the parts to him either. Oh well.

Wildfire on the horizon. I must be back in Florida again. Not long after we entered the state, Mother put us on I10 and kept us there until just after we crossed I75. Then it was two-lane blacktop again. When we were close to St Augustine, I pointed Mother a bit off-course to Orange Park for lodgings. A good thing too. On the way to the lodgings, I blew thru a four-way stop. I wuz half thru the intersection before I saw my sign out of the corner of my eye. It was my mulligan because I was a block from a police station but no police were nearby for my screwup.

Day 14 Google Earth Track

Day 14 Google Map Track


1.	Date and Time	May 30, 2008 about 5 PM *
2.	Odometer	about 32,650 *
3.	Mileage	about 400 *
4.	Elapsed Time	about 8 hrs *

* stats from here on out are WAG (wild ass guesses) 'cause they were written on scraps of paper and stuffed in my back pocket with gas receipts. First thing I did when I got home to the Krash Pad is wash those pants for something to wear to the cruise-in. The scraps of paper and receipts got washed too. Damnation!

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