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Yessir, I quit years ago and whenever I even think about smoking one now all I have to do is look at the price of a pack.

Hmmm, I wonder if your sister remembers it the same way 🤔

We paid cash and got a receipt too. Turned our receipts in they paid us back for tolls and any truck related items we bought on the road. When we went to Boston we'd say "you'd better have at least $100 to pay tolls, and a carton of cigarettes". Now if you only had $100 you'd probably have to turn around in Baltimore and come back. 🤣

The G.W. was $20 when I started driving too. The Pa. Pike cost $21 to go from Breezewood to Ohio, in class 7. West VA. Turnpike was $9 and some change. Then they all went up and up and up until you had to carry a suitcase full of cash to pay tolls, then we went to EZ- Pass and I didn't even keep up with it anymore. I have no idea what the G.W. bridge or Pa. Pike Costs to run now.

I heard that too, as a matter of fact I was watching YouTube videos on TV and saw a video about it. Side note- I forgot I could watch YouTube on TV, that trailer those guys made must have weighed 500,000 lbs. by the time they were done. 😁

Probably the last time I had a "real" milkshake was at the Cumberland Restaurant, in Cumberland, VA. where I grew up. That's probably been more than 50 years ago now.

That's ok, it's not your fault, I'm sure Donald Trump caused it somehow.

Nice!

We spend a lot of money on bird seed, no doubt! I like to watch them though, we have doves, cardinals, blue jays, wood peckers, even had about a dozen crows out there this morning. I always throw some food on the ground because the crows and doves are too big to get on the feeders. It would last longer if it weren't for the squirrels, I went out and filled the feeders during the last storm and by the time I got back inside there was 6 squirrels out there.

I got my ass whipped many times, but I never got a whipping that I didn't deserve. In fact, I probably deserved a lot more than I got 🤣

We've already had more snow this winter than we've had for a long time. Started here about 7:20 this morning, right about the time I let the dog out. 10 minutes later the ground was white, and it's still snowing. The high today and tomorrow isn't supposed to get out of the 20's. I don't mind a snow like this at all, especially since I'm not out on the road in it, it's the ice that's a real bummer 😕.

It's snowing today, I guess I should get on the computer and catch up on all these videos that I can't watch on the phone.

Yes, I remember the Red Skelton Show.

What would REALLY be cool to me would be a nose off of a D860, like this- But I doubt that would be possible without a fully equipped shop, with a team of fabricators, a ton of money, and a D860 for parts 🤣

A friend of mine said "let me get you a high hood for that thing, that'll look good". But I don't want the high hood, I like the looks of that sloped nose myself. I told Zina she could drive the GMC in the parades and I'd drive the big green International that runs now 🤣

OK, thank you. I'll take a look when we get it back home.

Here's a couple of Bob from Tennessee's vehicles that he restored and shows, or used to show. I don't think he does much with them anymore. He said the last time he took anything to a car show it was that KW you can see part of in the driveway there. He has 4 more trucks and cars parked in his basement too, but I didn't take my phone with me when he showed them to us, but they looked fantastic.

I can't look now, the truck is still in Lynchburg.

I have the VIN on the title.

Sounds great- who knows, we might take a notion to ride down to Bill's Truck Stop for lunch one day.

Oh, I see what you're talking about now- the truck is an '84, not '74. That's a misprint, due to big fingers, arthritis, and small screens. I shall go back and fix that right now.

I don't know a thing about them, but everybody (whoever "everybody" is) says they're a good engine, pretty much bullet proof. It would be nice if this one had a 9 over, then it might run fast enough for Zina. I knew it wasn't going to be very fast as soon as I saw on the sticker on the back of the visor that it had a 4.11 rear end ratio.

Here's what Wikipedia says-

It doesn't even have a bunk, it's got a couch all the way down one side, then on the other side there's a refrigerator, microwave, sink, and a little triangle shape seat in the corner. It has a window type AC unit in the back. It was set up really nice at one time, it had a hook-up for a Kohler generator to power everything. 2 different size hitch balls and a small 5th. wheel. I talked to Rob and he said he was pretty sure he had seen that truck in Indiana getting fuel at the same place he was, and they were delivering new camper trailers with it. So the sleeper has lots of potential, but it does need a new boot, I saw a couple of holes in it. The guy that I bought it from, who was going to drive it to Vancouver, bought it from a guy who had it on the farm somewhere. He might have used it to pull a livestock trailer or something, I don't know. It looks like it's been pretty well taken care of though.