Although not actually new: apparently the owner has had it since before I moved in (over a year ago), but it’s been in the body shop for a long time.

After I had finished most of my errands and chores for the day and gotten Ravna good and tired for the afternoon, I spent a couple hours working on the truck.

A bunch of stuff for the truck. The obligatory tie rod ends (minus sleeve, which is coming from a third warehouse), spark plugs, EGR valve (thought mine was maybe a bit stiff and I have been smelling some fuel), spark plugs, filters for the injectors and a whole bunch of gaskets plus new regulator for the throttle…

I’m finally starting to turn my attention towards the ‘92 Chevy pickup I bought a year ago. It has lots of issues to sort out, but right now I’m focused on trying to figure out what’s wrong with the engine.

I paid a shop to change the oil right before the spring cruise, and with that trip and all the others it had racked up 4,500 miles on conventional by the time I got back from Banff, so it was overdue. It burned about 3/4 of a quart that I refilled on my way back, but even then, the engine had started to shudder very…

interestingly painted Corolla

There’s just this giant pile of cut logs (that’s been laying out in the rain, naturally) near one loop of the site. Drive on over, scramble on a not totally structurally stable pile of wood rubble to find ones that aren’t so wet, and chuck them in.

The Oppo PNW Fall Chill is on September 7th & 8th in Portland, OR. That’s a bit over a month away! My apologies for not posting about it for two months, but it’s still on, and now I have plans for what we’ll be doing.

Today Ravna and I drove (well, I drove, Ravna rode) from Portland to the small town of Cranbrook, British Columbia. It was the longest driving day so far for both Ravna and my Volvo: 9 hours and 540 miles. They both did a great job!

Had to reach way back in the vault for this one (I’m pretty sure I didn’t post this one already).

Super orange, super blingy baller pickup (I think GM?)

I took a business trip down to Irvine again this week, so in order to make up for being in Irvine most of the time I took Friday off so I could go carve some canyons with Wrong Wheel Drive (41%). Here’s how it went!

This is the second time he’s filled up this morning.

I’ve driven this car up and down one canyon road already (Ortega Canyon) and had a pretty good time, though there was traffic both ways. I’m excited for all the roads WWD is gonna show me today; he says there won’t be any traffic on most of them! We’ll see if I can keep up with him.

This was in Portland on Monday. I hope this is a new neighborhood friend, and not just a visitor.

The Abarth this time!

Some bonehead booked me a 6 AM flight.

Wrong Wheel Drive and I are going to meet up on the morning of Friday July 12th to carve some canyons, go on a short hike, and maybe even hit up the beach before I fly back to Portland. Who wants to come?