Flying Jay truckstop, Mississippi ....

Well, let me bring everyone up to speed here on our adventures...............

We finally left Weeki Wachee Fl about a week ago, ON veggie oil. After filling up at the local legion hall on grease ( and getting stuck in the sand,LOL, ) we headed off towards Inverness Fl to visiit with our wonderful new friends Steven and Zeela and to paint our bus.

We met Steven and Zeela on line awhile back. It turns out they were living only about 50 miles from us and were also doing a bus conversion (and trying desperately to get out of Fl).They are actually living in their converted school bus and working on another conversion, a 1969 Greyhound bus.They are doing a real great job on the body work and it is going to look excellent, a real classic.After a few days of painting, fun and hanging out we parted ways (for now) and headed towards Sarasota to say goodbye to my dad and step mom,then headed for the I 75 and California, at last !!!

We greased up again outside Sarasota at a Gyro place,then again at a high end restaurant in Pascagula Fl. Everyone was real receptive and intrested in what we were doing.

All went well until we got to Alabama,when we began to stall and have problems with air in the lines.This has gotten progresively worse and now we sit at a Flying Jay truckstop in Missisippi contemplating our next move............

At first we thought we found the problem when we noticed that one of the brass shut off valves had been severed due to the engine shaking. Moss replaced it with a steel piece, then changed all the filters, still it will not start for more than a few minutes, on diesel or veggie.

We posted on one of the veggie boards for advice and got some excellent suggestions which we will try tomorow. We understood from the start that this was an experiment and that there would be a period of adjustment and fine tunning,...we just didnt realize it would be so soon,..LOL

Part of me says, "You should have gone with the profesional Grease car systems, you fool!", it would have been easier yes, it's true, but once we work out these bugs we will have the satisfaction of knowing that we helped create our own system and we will know it inside and out.

For now though, we sit here, at the Flying jay truck stop in Missisippi, our little green bus tucked in amongst the 18 wheelers and surounded by the strangely pleasant purring of the big diesel trucks all around us.

We consider our options, remaining open and receptive, as always,...we carefully weigh all the possibilities, we make lists of all possible solutions and scenarios,....we brainstorm... and try to look on the "bright side".........

......there are showers here and a television, wifi access for only five bucks a day,....and intresting folk comming and going......

Why, just this evening a drunken hobo came by and insited that Moss accept his overalls as a gift....

See, it aint so bad...........