A Little Hick-Up

An adventure wouldn’t be an adventure without a little hick-up from time to time. Our hick-up just happened to occur a little earlier than anticipated.

We were planning for a quick six-hour drive from Milwaukee to Ann Arbor, but what we got was a tiring twelve-hour journey. For some reason Veggie was not shifting into 4th gear. Now while Nick and I feel like we are pretty adept at a number of things: golf, Tiger Wood’s Golf, watching reruns of the Office; one thing we do not pride ourselves in is our mechanical know-how.

We tried everything (well almost everything). We ripped off pieces of cardboard and stuck them over the radiator to try to heat up the engine, we changed out the filters and we even tried tinkering with the governor. None of these worked, so we were relegated to going 40 mph the entire way to Ann Arbor.

The next day we gave Bryan a call and discovered a wonderful product called transmission fluid and before we knew it, Veggie was cruising at a very healthy 65 mph.

In Ann Arbor, Nick and I stayed with some great friends who helped us finish decaling our bus and let us crash at their apartment.

Having the opportunity to sleep on couches and take warm showers is going to be a luxury on this trip. We also had the chance to visit three churches in Ann Arbor and visit with their pastors. Be sure to check out pictures from those meetings in the picture section.

We stay in Ann Arbor one more night and head out to Ohio tomorrow morning. We’re ready, the question is: will Veggie be ready?