Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Nashville
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:56 pm
It is a classic summer day of lazy cumulus clouds and green hills and pastures under a strong sun. I love it. I live for it. Interstate 24 westbound slices through bucolic Tennessee countryside like it is supposed to be there.
The bus was awakened for this trip with no more than a bath and a tire pressure check. It is running flawlessly and I do like that sunshine reflecting off the concrete onto the headliner, gives a nice glow in counterpoint to the black window surrounds and green view through the windows (whassamattah HUH? you don't like pretty pitchers using woids?).
Fuel mileage thus far has been a middling 19 mpg, but I have been enjoying 70+. Perhaps if I could just chill a little, I could get 22-23mpg at 55 or whatever speed they used to determine the ratings. I changed the oil in Cumming GA at the Chevron station. My apologies for not discovering that I had left the drain cap a little loose on the drain container to allow for expansion as I drove from 48* Rochester NY to 86* Atlanta. . . thank goodness for the haz-mat rags I got from vwdeamBayb.
Replaced those wretched "new" fuel hoses in the Squareback and stuck it in a storage unit. Started right up after several weeks. I am considering using the Squareback for the West Coast trip in September, with these gas prices, it would help.
I am on my way to Missouri and Des Moines then Chicago.
Colin
(didja notice how pedestrian my writing has become? I am boring myself half to death. Please stand by, a few more days of open road should help)
The bus was awakened for this trip with no more than a bath and a tire pressure check. It is running flawlessly and I do like that sunshine reflecting off the concrete onto the headliner, gives a nice glow in counterpoint to the black window surrounds and green view through the windows (whassamattah HUH? you don't like pretty pitchers using woids?).
Fuel mileage thus far has been a middling 19 mpg, but I have been enjoying 70+. Perhaps if I could just chill a little, I could get 22-23mpg at 55 or whatever speed they used to determine the ratings. I changed the oil in Cumming GA at the Chevron station. My apologies for not discovering that I had left the drain cap a little loose on the drain container to allow for expansion as I drove from 48* Rochester NY to 86* Atlanta. . . thank goodness for the haz-mat rags I got from vwdeamBayb.
Replaced those wretched "new" fuel hoses in the Squareback and stuck it in a storage unit. Started right up after several weeks. I am considering using the Squareback for the West Coast trip in September, with these gas prices, it would help.
I am on my way to Missouri and Des Moines then Chicago.
Colin
(didja notice how pedestrian my writing has become? I am boring myself half to death. Please stand by, a few more days of open road should help)