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 16

SITREP

Unc and Aunt and I went out for dinner last night and I had a good nite's sleep. This morning, Aunt Marianne gave me several breakfast choices and I opted for oatmeal and java. I have other pics of Tom and Marianne with BillyBob but you can nebber have too many so I persuaded them to pose for another this year.

Sunday, june 1st 2008
Day 16 PRE Check

I don't have too far to go today and yesterday wasn't a long leg so the only check I made was engine oil. Again, BillyBob started easier with a little choke. Mother was set to take us to the Krash Lab and off we went.


1.	Date and Time	June 1, 2008 about 8:15 am *
2.	Odometer	about 32,850 *
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 put us on U.S.1 and kept us there until we crossed the St. Lucie River in Stuart. It was raining there, the hardest rain we hit the entire trip. The rain in Oklahoma was a drizzle by comparison. This rain was over in fifteen minutes and it was clear again by the time Mother turned us on to I95.

By the time we entered West Palm Beach from the north, it was clear that Mother was going to run us thru the gauntlet. It being sunday morning, it wasn't the deathmatch this stretch of I95 is between Palm Beach and Miami during the weekday rush hours.

After Mother took us thru the worst I95 had to offer, she wanted us to get off I95 at Boynton Beach which is a few exits short of Boca Raton and easier Interstate traveling then we had already been thru. I vetoed that and put her in passive mode. We were soon at our last stop before BillyBob's shadetree. One more gas up at the Valero station a block away from the office. This was done for the mileage calcs (I didn't know at the time that I would shorly destroy my figures in a laundry batch at the Krash Pad).

Last stop before the Krash Pad to get cleaned up for sunday nite cruise-in in Fort Lauderdale. BillyBob is back under the tree with his stablemates, Renegade and BettyLou. I checked on my parrot, Wingnut, and the servers inside and unloaded some of the things that I wouldn't need at home. just shy of 4,000 miles and 16 days and, once again, BillyBob took it all in stride.

Day 16 Google Earth Track

Day 16 Google Map Track


1.	Date and Time	June 1, 2008 about 11:45 AM *
2.	Odometer	about 32,990 *
3.	Mileage	about 140 *
4.	Elapsed Time	about 3 hrs, 30 min *

* 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. AARRRUUGH!

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