It's Alive!!!

On the road again!! Goodbye Roanoke - car runs great again, Brian is cruising at a health 91Mph, veggiemobile speed. We think that is about 65. This morning we replaced the fuel filter, and tightened up the steering bolts which had come loose. Actually, we heard a weird popping noise when we were at a gas station in Nashville and ever since the steering was a bit funny. Turns out one of the 3 bolts that holds in the power steering system completely broke in half. The other 2 should be good enough to get us home.

The mechanic said that the rings in the engine are worn, which is why it has been hard to start from the beginning. The rings go around the pistons in the engine, and when they are worn they might leak oil, which explains why Brian has gone through 7 quarts of oil since California (engine oil, not the veggie oil). Ironically, the blown rings might have saved the engine from being destroyed when we shot the ether in there! Everything has a reason.

And speaking of that - we just got late lunch at the Co-op in Roanoke - as we were leaving, a heavy set woman came over and started talking to us, being overly friendly. I was thinking, My what a friendly bunch of people there are here. Well, she went on to ask if we knew her friend, Jesus. Brian assured her that he did. I guess he's done this a hundred times since he lived there, smiling told her what she wanted to hear. She blessed him, and then, bless her heart, she blessed the car. So if we don't make it back now I'll know who to talk to. It was very nice and she was rightly impressed that it ran on vegetable oil. Brian told her I'm Jewish, and she told me that Jesus is her favorite Jew. I can't blame her there, she just met me. :)
Whoohoo, heading home!!!
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