Road Trip!!!!!

[Longhorn Man]

A couple of you may have noticed I have been gone since friday morning... been off entertaining a guest that flew in from the L.A. area.
We decided to take a short little road trip... 114 miles each way... not too much, but remember, I had only put 600 miles on the truck up to this point, and only about 50 of them were 3000 RPM freeway miles.
We went from here to Ripley Ohio, right across the ohio river and a few miles north west of Maysville Ky. What? Never heard of these towns? EXACTLY. Get out of the city, into the corn fields, and where people are real people. We had a mutual friend there that we both wanted to visit, good eats, good times, got to scare the crap out of the 2 teen age girls they had there.... fun stuff.
Anyways, this is about road trips, not meeting up with ppl.
I gotta say, i was a tad nervouse. No tripple a.. headin into the hills where you are lucky to get a cell signal, untested vehicle, and a hottie riding shot gun beside me. Sounds like a disaster looking for a place huh?
Flawless. The trip went about as well as I coulda imagined. The speedo cable broke right before rolling out of columbus, when I tanked up I diagnosed it with a broken speedo cable...the short one going from the cruise controll servo up to the speedo head. OK... It acted stupid above 45 MPH anyways...although, no odometer...and no gas guage... I like living on the edge.
That was the only issue the whole weekend. All in all I burned up about 4 tanks of fuel, got just shy of 10 MPG on the open road spinning at 3000 - 3500 RPM's (and a few shots up to 4000 and even a 4500 RPM's...what...100-ish maybe? 4.10 gears, 1:1 non lock up tranny and 31 inch tires) I kept on expecting something to die a violent death...but it never did. Kept an eye on the oil guage (like a hawk ever since the 425 blew) engine temp never got over 200...checked the hubs and tire temps at every stop (infared temp gun...awsome tool) the only thing I had not looked at was the diff oil, which judging by the temp of the bottom of the diff and the drastic chainge 1/2 way to the fill plug... I need to add some oil. But it never got over 105 degrees in the oil, and stayed at 145 from the oil line on up. guess i oughta look into that. I have a pinion seal sitting in the console just waiting to go on there...
Didn't get many pics on the way, and it was night time by the time we left. (like 2 in the A.M.) There was a covered bridge (see photo below) that I wanted to get a pic of with my truck in front of, but by the time the thought crossed my mind.. it was too dark. I tried, but all you could see was my parking lights. My foot slipped while going across it and did a small burn out inside the bridge. (Yeah..she didn't buy it either)
the pic of the 3 ppl are from left to right;
Bob, hottie passenger that was visiting me, and Vicki.

No real point... just missed my online friends and typing out long winded posts.