Getting ready to leave

It turns out that Anna’s car needed a new fuel pump but I didn’t want to drop the gas tank to change the pump... So, a friend told me that he had cut the bottom out of his kids trunk (with a grinder) and took the fuel pump out through the opening. Now, that sounded too good to be true so, I took the seats out of the van and cut up the carpet and then took a grinder to the floor! In a ½ hour the fuel pump was replaced and the floor was being bent back into place. (I did put a piece of metal over the cut up area so that we wouldn’t lose any grand kids through the floor when we were going down the road.) The repair took 1/3 of the time it would have taken to drop the tank to do the job, and since the van is about ready for the junk yard it seemed like the appropriate way to handle the repair.

The last week is here and I still have a few more projects that I have contracted to do. You would think that I would have had enough of working for the time being but people keep wanting to give me money for doing what I enjoy doing so, I keep agreeing to “just” one more job. Anyway, two more projects to complete, and we will be off to Virginia and back to the Snow Goose this weekend.

In other news, we have another great grandchild! Here is the newest one only 2 hours old.

I’ve also finished the new davit mounting hardware. I tried to buy some “starboard” to build the mounts out of but up here the price for a small strip of the stuff would have been over $100 opposed to the cost of the stainless which was $5.00... I went with the metal.

Hope that you enjoy the upcoming year of travels. Now that the summer recess is over with we will try to keep the web site full of interesting things (or if not interesting then just full). Email us with any comments or suggestions.