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The Biggest Guy in Town

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We’re on our second truck in 2 years.   After the untimely death of our beloved truck, Buck, to the front end of a Canadian commercial van, we had to upgrade from a 1999 to a 2000 Nissan Frontier.   We’ve put nearly 50,000 miles on our newest steed and the tough old girl has done amazingly well.   Billie Jo is her name – in honor of the salesman, Bill, from Michigan City, Indiana that helped us find her.   She fires up without any complaints and the gas mileage hovers in the mid teens while pulling out little home.   She’s been as reliable as the dawn.   That being said, as with any 14 year old, we’ve had a few issues.  The distributor took a crap in Searcy, Arkansas.   Our raised hood in the Walmart parking lot garnered some attention, conjecture and good old fashioned advice, or as we call it in Watauga County, “might coulds”.    “Yeah, you might could change out the fuel filter,” translation: “while it is possible that a clogged fuel filter is the cause of your engine