What happened to all that free money from driving miles in the Crapolier?

 

70k this morning

 

She's gonna blow!!

 

Honestly if she hasn't yet with all the crap Ive put it through its not going too, Probably had 50 tunes and Revisions run through it. WOT throttle multiple times a day. Me being a dummy and trying to manually shift it and forget and bounces off the rev limiter and several other etc etc etc

 

I've been sort of interested in doing a aftermarket stereo for the truck. Only found one dash kit and it's as much as the damn radio!!! 260 dash kit figure 300 for radio then figure speaker upgrade wiring etc and it's gonna be 1k.. Nothe worth it to me.

 

Road trip was finished up on Sunday. I think next time I will take a extra day to do it as I was pretty wiped at the end of it. Basically 4 days of driving of my 12 day vacation. Truck did awesome and still very happy with the new tires.

Just shy of 6000km round trip (3700 miles) and close to 900 liters of gas burned (240 Gallons). Lots of wind, weight, Winter gas, speed and lots of idling (freaking cold out) netted 15.4mpg average. Far cry from the 22mpg I saw in August.

I spent $20 at the coin wash just trying to rinse off all the salt and dirt. Now time for an oil change!

 

Dude -- have you lost your mind? That money doesn't get ear-marked for mundane things like household repairs! Mileage money is strictly reserved for automotive madness and other associated frivolities......

Short term, I'm going to use some of the money I have tucked away for general maintenance items I need to do on my current "babies" -- for example, new injectors on the F-150 now that I'm outside of the extended warranty on the '05's, etc. I'm also planning on dropping some coin on the Ranger -- 4"- 6" lift kit, taller differential gearing, and a nice set of rims and tires.

Longer term, I keep waiting for Ford to come out with a new vehicle that piques my interest -- maybe see what the Broncos look like once they start leaking more details about them.....

And of course, I'm always roaming around eBay looking for interesting, low-mileage older cars.....

 

Our last day of warm weather (until next week) taking decorations down in the front of the house because tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy...even a possibility of sleet or snow about 60 miles North of our house. Going get my errands done and fuel up my truck.

 

Here's what our snow usually looks like!!

 

In the 21 years I've lived in Houston I've seen snow flurries only one time and it wasn't even heavy enough to stick on anything. I keep promising the boy I'm going to bring him back to Minnesota in the winter so he can see what "real" snow looks like!

 

We get about the same weather as Houston/Galveston does but a day later. I like cold weather and snow but only for a few days...much prefer the warm weather. I've been in my current house 9 yrs and never have seen any snow. Our previous house we lived in for 32 yrs we saw snow about 3 times and it melted quickly.

 

Rolling out of OKC at 5am headed to Sonora Texas to go deer hunting. Should be fun getting out of Oklahoma with expected snow tonight. Oh well, its worth hunting, right? Have to take about 70 deer before end of month so should be worth the trip.

 

More snow up here tonight and tomorrow. Crazy for this area, I haven't seen this much snow around here since 2007.

 

Nasty day...cold..rainy and windy. Good day to stay inside..don't miss all the years I had to work outside in this kind of weather!

 

I was out working in it yesterday -- raw, windy and cold! Today is a breeze -- just have to drive down the highway in the Cavalier and think about where I want to stop for lunch on my way back to Houston.....