The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Hip Bone...

What I don't understand is how an old car could run so well for thirty years with an engine full of worn out parts. And every part interacts with some other parts creating a symphony or, in my case, something that sounds more like a middle school orchestra trying to play  Pachelbel's Canon. It sounds a bit like music; you can recognize the tune; but you really don't want to take this gang on a cross-country concert tour.

The Route

The old federal route known as US-50 has been called "the loneliest road in America." It looks like it won't be next June!
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Jamie Jensen, author of Road Trip USA(http://www.roadtripusa.com/) describes it as a "3200-mile odyssey from sea to shining sea....Along the route are some of the country's most magnificent landscapes: the Sierra Nevada and the

Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, the endless farmlands of the Great Plains, and the desiccated deserts of Utah and Nevada....US-50 passes through literally hundreds of timeworn small towns, the great majority of which have survived despite the modern onslaught of Wal-Marts and fast-food franchises."

Blizzard Blankets Michigan!

Last night a blizzard starting blowing through most of the Great Plains and northeastern part of the U.S. This afternoon, it's still snowing heavily. Not a great day for a 79-mile commute each way, so an opportunity to catch up on things at home.

The motor to the TD is completely disassembled and the major components are at a local machine shop being measured this week.  Bill Mikkelson, working out of his Chelsea-based shop,