Saturday, January 12, 2013

It has been unseasonably warm the past two days, with today a high of 63.  You can tell from the picture, which I took when we returned, that it has rained.  Actually it has been raining off and on all day, and is supposed to pretty much rain all weekend with temps turning colder tomorrow and maybe flurries by Monday.  Due to parked cars, Saturday and Sunday are the best days to maneuver the bus in and out of the lot, so our little jaunts are on the weekends.  The last time we had the bus out was September, so she was over due a run down the road.  I have been wanting to fill the diesel tank before it got too much further into winter to keep down condensation and this weekend turned out to be the best time we've had available in a while.   Today was my first time to drive her in the rain so I figured the experience would be good too.  This is my second time to drive a bus in the rain, but my first time with this one.  Back toward the beginning of my blog when I bought my first bus my initial drive and trip home from Ohio to Ky was a downpour rain all the way.  Talk about a trial by fire, so to speak.

At any rate, when I started her up today, I noticed a pretty good air leak at one of the air/electric valves in the engine room on the rear bulkhead.  I figured it wasn't so bad that I could not drive her so we went out anyway.  By the time we made our fuel stop at Love's in Richmond, it had stopped leaking, so just another indication that the bus needed to be run.  Sitting is very hard on them.

Today diesel was $3.94/Gal at Love's Truck stop and it took $399 and change to fill the tank.  The bus ran great, as usual.  Driving in the rain gave me a chance to actually run both air wipers.  The right side is a little finicky but they both work and do the job.  The left side wiper has a soothing rhythm to it.  So another successful little jaunt down I-75 and back.