Hey, Look what I found!

Retrieved it this morning less than 30 miles from my house. Here it is on the roof of my 96 Dakota.

Need a hint?

The Gen II Dakota Travel bug Jon dropped in CO during the National Meet. Ray's 92 Dakota is pretty fast.

Now I have to figure out where I'm going to drop it. Hmmmmmmm.


Quote of the day: "I Use A Multi-Billion Dollar Military Satellite System To Find Tupperware In The Woods, What Do You Do?"

Track logs updated

I've been going back and updating the track logs that I had previously posted. I'm caught up with our westbound trip, through July 14. Now I can start filling in the logs that I had saved from the actual meet.

Blogger allows for the dates of posts to be modified. I've been changing my posts about each day so that they appear on the actual days. That'll make it easier to create an overall meet report from this blog, but it makes it more difficult to find the posts since they won't appear at the top of the blog.

So, I'm going to post links to my recently changed posts for convenience. Here is what I've updated so far:

http://dmlmeet.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-10-track.html
http://dmlmeet.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-11-track.html
http://dmlmeet.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-12-track.html
http://dmlmeet.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-13-track.html
http://dmlmeet.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-14-track.html

Walt-n-Ingrid's Blog

This is a link to our personal Blog. Now that were home again, I've made it public. It has a lot of the same posts at the DML National Meet Blog and some additional. I'm working on updating both right now.

We are home!

Rolled into the driveway about 9:45PM last night. 6322 miles doorstep to doorstep. 473.58 gallons of gas at a cost of $1,413.27 with an overall average of 13.349 mpg.

Had a small problem in PA, yesterday, that required a 3-4 hour visit to a dealer. The hard line for the rear brakes ruptured. The line itself was all rusted up and of course it had to pop right behind the fuel tank so they had to drop the tank (which of course was full) to replace it eating up about 4 hours on us. Was able to slowly limp it to a nearby dealership since we had no brakes. Because of the delay, we skipped 3 final stops on out itinerary Centrailia, Cabela's and OCC.

I also have to take a look at the AC. It quit working sometime after I was cleaning on Sat morning before the DTW NGTG show. The compressor kicks in and has enough pressure (50-60 psi on the low side according to the gauge I put on it), but it just blows at outside air temp and not cold. However, the line running from the condenser to the firewall gets cold enough to have condensation on it. Sunday, it was cooler to run with the windows down vs. up with the AC (even in the 100 degree weather). I'm hoping I just knocked loose a connector for the blend door or something like that. I think it quit after hitting the engine compartment with the hose at the car wash. I'll have to poke around a bit and see if anything stands out.

Met up with Gary Hedlin in St. Louis. Both he and I took "Top 10" trophies at the DTW event.

I stopped updating the blog just before leaving CO, so I have some catch-up to do. At one point, I couldn't update my personal Blog because it would time out while publishing over the cellular connection. I had to open a Remote Desktop session with my 2000 server at the house and publish to the blog from it, however, that was a time consuming process so I just gave up after a few times. Give me a day or two to get situated and I'll get back on that.