I really am hoping to be well schooled in American barbecue by the time I get home this Fall.
I'd like a really tender steak, but not a filet, maybe some short ribs, then some barbecue.
I also love German food, bet there's some good places along the way.
my biggest challenge is getting out to restaurants not traveling with a car. So often the best opportunity for me is to
stop someplace for lunch. I'm sure the lunch portion will be two or three meals anyway.
Creole is good, have to be careful with ghost peppers or something explosive in there.
I'd like TexMex also. Not junk food, the good stuff, but preferably not at expensive restaurants.
TexMex without a lot of carbs. I bet Don could pull out three recipes.
Thankfully I like black beans.
when traveling I almost always cook for myself so when i stop at supermarket once a week, I try to get something
local.
now I need to email my stepbrother in Salida CO to see if I can get my motorhome up to his house, not to stay, but to change
the oil. This is the wonderful family member with a handle of bugattidoc, as in 100 year old race cars, simply a remarkably talented guy.
He would build crankshafts from scratch from billet something. I think he can handle the oil change. Really I just need somewhere to dump the oil, sure don't want to travel with that. He has a machine shop at home, I hope to get some good pics. He built his wife a greenhouse shaped like a geodesic dome. His old machine shop in Lahaska Pa, outside of Peddlers Village, was like a candy store to me. I had to be careful to not keep asking
what is that?
and what is this?
most of the cars he worked on ranged from 1-3M value to priceless. Most European old racecars.
yup I think that crude hunk of Ford iron will be in good hands.
I'm just not going to go 8000 miles on an oil change, though with full synthetic I probably could.
I just changed it about 1000 miles ago and I have this one small trip coming up.
Then it will get changed again. I can do it in the driveway, and by doing it myself, I'm more confident in it.
The time before that oil change a friend's son helped me with the oil change, basically did it himself, stripped the drain nut so it would not
tighten at all, just spun, and then loctited it on. Amazingly it held. New drain plug put on immediately plus I have another spare.
I never ragged on him about it, what bothers me is he didn't tell me the nut stripped. Kudos for Loctite.
I had to find out with wide eyes the next time I changed the oil myself.
a real you have to be kidding moment.
new one went in just fine, so thankfully enough good threads were left.
It was tightened but not leaned on since it has an internal rubber washer.
only thing that engine likely needs is another couple cans of Sea Foam.
keep those injectors clean, maybe I'll creep up half a mpg to 10.5
