Auto Abuse In The White Mountains
Chris Griffith has an excellent blog about Bonita Springs, which I believe to be in Florida, which I enjoy reading for the pictures. Just kidding Chris! She has some excellent pictures, but she also has an excellent sense of humor.
Anyway, the other day she wrote about how she abused her car by not washing it, but it didn’t look very dirty to me. So I thought I would show you all how dirty a whip can get.
Now I know Florida probably doesn’t use cinders for slippery roads, I doubt they have slippery roads! And Chris probably doesn’t have a gravel road to travel on, in a month of Sundays. But when you live on a gravel road, and you have to go find a listing that is somewhere in the middle of Township 12 North, and Range 23 East, and you’re looking for little pieces of rebar sticking out of the ground that may or may not still be there, given they were planted sometime back in the ’70’s. 
Given all this, and roads that look like this:
Then you get a pimpmobile that looks like THIS! And I still have probably a couple more weeks before I’ll get a weekend where it would make any sense to wash it. Don’t laugh at my “truck”, I haul a lot of wood with this thing, and I need the stock racks so I can get it all in. 
Now please don’t get me wrong here, I’m just having fun with Chris, and I think she’ll know that, but I love my job! I sometimes have to take my dirt bike out to find a piece of land because my 2 wheel drive woodhauler can’t make it, how tough is that?! 
I also get the opportunity to see some of the most beautiful country there is. But there may be more vehicle abuse going on in the White Mountains than in Bonita Springs. I saw a truck the other day that was so covered with mud it didn’t need window tint. The only way the driver could see out was because they had used the windshield wipers, the side windows, and back window, were completely covered with mud. So if you’re a mud bogger, or as they say it here, you “like to go riding around in the tulies”, you may like this area, it’s kind of a pass time here.
If you liked this post you may want to read these
I liked you blog and subscribed. I hope I will get quality info.
Thanks for subscribing Milan! I’m glad you like the blog.
I hope you’ll get something in your reader once in a while, that looks like quality.
Is it really car abuse if your truck likes to go out for a roll in the mud?
I have seen a few of those trucks that are so dirty, you can’t even tell it was a truck. I look at them with a bit of envy and I always ask myself: “Where did they go to have sooooo much fun?”
If you have never seen one of these fun in the mud, out in nature trucks, click the following link to see one:
http://a586.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/60/l_962b24245be1e106eea7957abd408a91.jpg
Looks like fun, huh??
lol, thanks Carol, that was the pic I didn’t have.
I washed the car today. (buyers) LOL
Hi Chris
I guess it’s true what they say huh “clean sells”? Hey thanks for cruisin’ by!
He-he… we live in the boonies (SW Utah desert) and our trucks are NEVER clean. As a matter of fact… nothing is ever clean. When the wind blows, the dust flies… and that’s daily.
Until it rains (snows), we’re pretty much ok… but when you add water on top of the dust and sand… well, you get the picture.
Great blog!
Shari
Thanks for the compliment Shari.
We get a little of that wind stuff around here as well, but I am happy to say I’ve never seen a tornado in the 15 or so years I’ve been here, and never felt an earth quake, and I’ll take a little wind as a trade off!
Thanks for dropping in Shari, and Merry Christmas! How many sheep and cattle do you guys have up there?
Hi Scoot,
We’ve got a small flock of black Merino/Suffolk cross sheep (5 pregnant ewes, one pet wether, and a a 350# ram), and a small flock of chickens… providing us about 17 eggs a day year round.
Our neighbors are raising 3 steers, so a year from now, we’ll have home-grown beef in the freezer.
We also have three horses… one ridable, one green-broke, and one year-old filly.
Yeah… you could say we love living in the boonies… here’s a kinda’ sorta’ non-monetized blog where I’m telling our story… http://fourcountrygals.com
May y’all have an awesome Christmas, and a prosperous New Years.
Shari