no borring trips

         a month or two ago, i cant really remember. I could if i tried but watever. we went to a wedding in st louis Missouri. we wondered the city a bit before the reception and found some cool stuff. we both like graffiti and old building and there was alot of both. we also went to the arch and while there we saw something i found amazing. now this picture is "of my mom" except its not and thats why she looks so comfused.its really a picture of the lady in the back.... in a stoller. on top of that shes a bigger lady. and it made my day to see it.

       while there we found a bike trail but had no bikes so we were forced to walk. bummer. but we found this awesome bridge that lead to a locked door. if you look close thats a face with a ball in his mouth. im sure theres some message but i like to think he got stung by a bee on his toung.

       
     after the fun and games we headed back to tulsa we had expected to find a campground and pitch a tent. but apperently there arent many around there and they werent open anyway. we wound up at a rest stop sleeping in the car. it was an rx7. they are tiny.  the next moning we headed out and were makin good time. goin a bit fast.(not sure how fast the speedo doesnt work hehe), down a steep hill, being followed by a semi. and pow and thump and every other noise that makes you think you blew up an engine.the car started shakeing like crazy making and a very loud hum. ontop of the broken exaust pipe from the day before. i thought i had blown a tire. i pulled over out of everyones way and got out to look at what happened. the tires were fine so i poped the hood, nothin, so i get in and start the engine. runs great. so i get back out thinking mabye something stuck under the car. nope nothing. so i get in and start to drive and now its a clunk, clunk, clunk. so i knew it was a u joint. so i limped it off the highway. and go to a flat spot to work on it. i had lost a cap and some rollers but the other bits were fine. so i looked arounf to see what i could use as a cap. i could have got a tow to a shop oor even an oriellies but wheres the fun in that. so i find some bits of scrap of aluminum, some bailing whire, and a nut. i jammed the aluminum in the hole and used the nut to keepit frome flying out and tied it all together with the wire. wala. we made a phone call . to a friend who found the nearest auto parts store. 10 miles away. so we took off trying to go slow. had quite the line of angry trafic. made it about 8 miles and started shaking agian. so we just limped along and found our way to the store. of course they didnt have it. so they ask all the local shops nobody has it. the closest one was in springfiend nearly 200 miles away. so we get to looking at the books and fine a pto ujoint that is just a hair to small. i can live with that. but the bearing were bigger. so i decided to throw out the bearings and make a bushing. globed it full of grease and prayed. we took off and made it home with out an issue. worked so well that i acctully forgot about fixing it for a week.

  this is how it goes on most of my trips. when i went to colorado for the first time without my mom. the clutch went out in salina Kansas on the way home. when we bought the camper we had a radiator hose blow on jamies truck. when driving home from north carolina jamie was towing my bug. the tire was rubbing the wheel well. crow bar and it was fixed. later that night blew the radiator hose. cut it down near the thermostat. and made a new thermostat gasket with a cereal box(left that for weeks). had the scout out a grand had a stick go though the radiator. drove the burban to texas had both belts fall off. dont know how but they did. its allways interesting and the clutch was the only time i couldnt find a way to get home.(got a ride from a friends parents with a trailer). so yea its allways fun.

         the only car that has never let me down is my good ol 81 honda prelude. any one who knows me knows this is my car. i never plan to get rid of it even if it gets hit by a trian im gona fix it. assuming i escape first. but in 6 years its never failed me and its been to colorado, north carolina, virgina, texas,and everything in between.

 

Barn...Shed... Shop...Whatever.

So about 5 months ago Jonathan and I were given some land by his step-dad out at Grand Lake in Disney, Oklahoma. Which is super crazy and ironic bc when we were in highschool we use to go out to this part of the lake and rock crawl, ALOT! So lets just say we were super pumped that this land was given to us. 


So with that being said we've been trying build a barn( or a shop if your Jonathan) and its taken us alot longer then we expected(waiting for concrete to dry and trying to dig where the ground is just one solid rock slab takes awhile). And we've changed the way and improvised how we were gonna build it about 10 times.... Super disheartening. But we worked on and tried to keep our heads up and now we almost have a COMPLETE BARN!!!! YAY for determination! 


We stayed out there for 3 days straight and we got the land completely level( our land is pretty much one big hill), built a shell, and almost have the roof completely covered with tin!


The whole point of us making this barn is so while we're on the road all of our stuff will be stored away and safe. So after its done being made we'll pretty much be able to leave whenever we want( so everyone can stop askin us)ha. But we ran out of supplies so now we have to wait til Craigslist has some more free supplies. :) 

I wonder if i could squeeze in 'complete' or 'completely' in this post a few more times.ha

This is like the first thing Carbon did when we got to the land. ha. He was hot and just wanted to cool off in his little doggie pool.

 This is the track hoe and the beginning of our building

 Is was just a funny picture under the seat of the track hoe

 Barn

 Jon Jon up in the roof. How cute is he?

hot days and a lemon tree

        we have been working pretty hard this week trying to rap up our crap. and by that i mean my crap. jamie has her stuff but i have a little problem with saving things. part of my hope from this trip is to change whatever it is in my head that just cant let stuff go. obviously when you live in a trailer you cant have to much stuff. alot of the work weve been doing has been out side and right now at 9 in the morning its 90 outside. it will be well over 100 by noon and for the last couple weeks its been around 105 everyday. i dont like a/c myself but that is really hot. thats why when we do leave here were going north until were not sweating anymore. the hope is that well be leaving in about 2 weeks but you never know.

         so earlier this year i was going to atwoods to by some gloves for my job. as i was walking in a small bag caught my eye. it was full of cute little onions. they were a dollar and i had to have them. then i found some garlic too. yay me. i planted them and quickly everyone i knew started questioning me. the main question was what will you do with them when you leave. well my solution was to put them in a big box and just put the box inside while were moving and outside while were not. well all the garlic died and the onions stopped groing a few weeks ago so that made it alot easier. now i dont have to worry about plants on the trip.
         well then one day i decidedto sell my old little kayak i made when in school. It was to narrow so it fliupped very easily,leaked and was really uncomfortable. i put it up for $30. the next day i get a call saying "would you like a 3 year old ponderosa lemon tree?" so of course i say sure. so we do meet up and these people are kinda odd very nice but odd. after talking a few minutes the lady comes over to show me something. she reaches into her pink fanny pack and pulls out a stack off pictures. they are worn, the corners are anll bent. clearly she takes them everywhere. i look at the pictures and they are all of sunks. they had 7 skunks living in there house. i told them i had allways wanteds a pet racoon. she told me that racoons are bad pets. i cant see how anything could be much worse than a skunk but ive never had either. someday mabye i will.
         so now that i have the lemon tree all the questions start back up. and all the anwers are the same but of course everyone thinks im crazy just because i wanted a lemon tree. seems like they would be used to this stuff by now its not unusual for me. lucky for me the one who doesnt mind is the one im married to. she even likes my tree.

             

hi im Jonathan

its my first time to post so hello to anyone who may read this. Im a car guy so i will likely write about the truck and bikes and all that good stuff alot.

  so the truck we were gona use was my 78 ih scout ii traveler. after some hard thinking i decided we would get another truck. i love that truck and thats exactly why it will be parked safely here in oklahoma while were out going everywhere else. I just dont want to have a major breakdown and have to sell it and also parts a quite hard to come by. so we started shopping and found ourselves an 83 chevy suburban. now my order of trucks would be toyota, ih, nissan, ford, dodge, then chevy. perfect.... if it breaks i'll just throw it away. well we've had it about a month now and agian im in love so im screwed. at least parts are easy and cheap.

       Ok so its an 83 4x4 3/4 ton. 1500 bucks. and yes i do trust it. if i had to guess id say 30,000 miles before a serious breakdown. made that roof rack to hold our kayaks and whatever else we cant fit in the truck. im sure as i become more familiar with it so will you. but for now thats the truck.

     And the camper. its a 78 fleetwood prowler. found it in oklahoma city back in febuary.  theres only so much i can say... its a camper... anyway heres a pic.

       jamies got a 250 ninja shes bringin and ive got a yamaha/honda/kawasaki 350 im bringin. i just gota have something to fart around with and i figure i should leave our tow rig alone.

       i quit my job monday so now were really getting close to leaveing. the hope is to leave the begining of augest but me and jamie learned a long time ago if you set a schedule it will be wrong so for this trip we have never set a date officially. although our origianl goal was april(lol). plus if we rush the trip then the whole point of the trip is ruined.

also i hated english class and it shows. so forgive the lack of punctuation, grammer, or spelling.

ok im done now. until next time byby