After a mishap followed by the most serious mishap and yet another mishap, it's no wonder we admittedly put off this dreaded most intricate mechanical job: changing our V8 engine valve stem seals.
Sitting at my desk in my empty classroom with my teacher resignation letter printed, signed, and scanned and the email to Human Resources loaded in front of me, I was hesitating. Then I was overthinking. Then I was panicking.
Our fifty-six-year-old antique RV becomes a safe haven for a second snake before it turns into a modified rally car and shoots flames from its exhaust. Here's this crazy story . . .
We heard back from USCIS after petitioning the government to remove the conditions on my permanent resident status because my conditional Green Card was expiring.
Andy and I are positive no one in the history of immigrating to the United States of America has been told what we were told by a USCIS officer the day of our Green Card through marriage interview. Here's more on our crazy process to get…
I was talking to a man who looked identical to Albert Einstein. We were both leaned back in recliners and were shoeless with our socked feet moving as we swapped stories of the most personal kind. This was how my June infusion looked,…
This was one of the most breathtaking sunrises we have seen, and the morning fog made the view even more surreal as it slipped over the valley and provided a contrast against the Blue Ridge Mountains ...
The day after paying a deposit to hold an apartment in England, my manager pulled me aside at work and asked, "Hey, do you want to work in the States for six months?"
Our 1965 Clark Cortez motorhome's speedometer needle was bouncing so much that a spring could have been attached to it. Accuracy was not its strong point.
This is the East Coast's version of Antelope Canyon in Arizona, which is why the area has been touted as a natural wonder and one of Virginia's best kept secrets.
It's true -- We don't have mice problems because we found a snake inside our RV! How we wrangled a snake from our motorhome ourselves after spark plug work!
Since L and I have had our 1965 Clark Cortez motorhome, we've had a problem getting our RV to reliably start. It's finally time to test if our engine is healthy ...
Our steel beast sounded like a cartoon raging bull who was held back but also taunted with a waving red flag -- The desire to run was more than present but something somewhere was keeping our beast at bay.
One would believe if a vehicle runs before taking a fuel tank out, once the tank was reinstalled, the vehicle would run again. However, we learned this is not the case after our tank restoration.
Our welder and friend returns to save us and our Cortez -- His job is to weld two threaded bungs to our fuel tank which will nearly finish off this tank restoration.