Itinerant Air-Cooled

It is that time where I go get lost in the countryside and do little projects and try to reconnect to It All.

Last year, I accidentally left the rear bumper bolts behind somewhere between Colorado Springs and Raton:

http://itinerant-air-cooled.com/viewtop ... =58&t=8709

This year, I found them! Just followed my inner compass's vague recollections of:
A) A dirt road to my left:


B) With two driveways at the end:


C) I had the bolts perched on this barrier:


D) They had of course fallen, but were not totally buried by rain/sand spatter:


E) Back in the magnetic dish 362 days late, they will need to be touched up.


I am doing my best to drag some rain into Texas here:


It will likely wait until I am doing some painting of lower engine tins and heater control valves tomorrow. I am eastbound on US 64/87 just outside of Dalhart Texas:


The bus is famous again now that I am back near the middle of the country. Here at McDonalds, the frenchfry chef came out to my table while I was uploading today's pictures and asked me to take a photograph of him in front of the bus.
Being thick and old and slow, I asked him curtly,
"And how are you supposed to get the photograph?" looking at my c-a-m-e-r-a here.
"With my p-h-o-n-e here."

Enjoy Colin. Be sure to take an aimless day or two in there.


neal

Amazing story! Only you.

Amazing re-discovery! Take lots of pictures, no phone needed.

So Texas .... Who's Yer Daddy?

This here is Lubbock Texas August 25, 7:07 PM.

Amskeptic wrote:E) Back in the magnetic dish 362 days late, they will need to be touched up.

Is that the Hippie commemorative magnetic bolt-holder-dish-thingy?

Oh if that three-dollar dish only knew what adventure awaited when I picked it off the shelf at Big Lots.
Thank you for giving it the kind of life I never could.

Hippie wrote: Is that the Hippie commemorative magnetic bolt-holder-dish-thingy?

Oh if that three-dollar dish only knew what adventure awaited when I picked it off the shelf at Big Lots.
Thank you for giving it the kind of life I never could.

It has served well.
It is my morning shaving sink.
It is the ironing board.
It is the hand-paint mixing bowl.
It is the paper weight extraordinaire for those whipping western breezes.
I use it to crash police officers' laptops too, just before they pull up my warrants.
It does a really good job of holding nuts and bolts and screws, whodafiggered?
Colin

Bumper bolts: A story for the ages. Who needs GPS?

The BobD against that sky is VW Calendar material. Gives me a serious case of Horizon Hunger.

Whar is the picture with the p-h-o-n-e of the guy?

Amskeptic wrote:So Texas .... Who's Yer Daddy?

This here is Lubbock Texas August 25, 7:07 PM.

I knew you must have been somewhere nearby... we had a wet afternoon/evening in eastern New Mexico on the 25th. You must be some kind of rain magnet.

Ha Ha. I can just see the guy who posted that 'private property' sign now..."What the...Wasnt that guy in that exact spot last year? He's not going to paint that bumper again is he!?"