Vehicle Maintenance

We now have two vehicles with nitrogen in the tires. We took the truck to S & S Tire yesterday and it took almost two hours to exchange the air in all six tires to nitrogen. We also had them check the Jeep for a small leak under the mid section of the vehicle. It turned out to be a seal (gasket) in the transfer case that is deteriorating. That is a normal occurrence and we will take it to a transmission shop this morning to have the transfer case re-sealed. That will run another $350 but it is still cheaper than a car payment. The guy at S & S Tire that recommended the transmission shop said we should get 300K miles out of our Jeep, and we hope he is right. We have nearly 120K on it now, and it is running as strong now as the day we purchased it in 2005.

There wasn't much else that we did yesterday except that Josie did laundry and I scanned some photos into my system to send to Brian. These were photos of Pop when he was in the Army/Air Force at Hickam Field in Hawaii at the start of WW II. He was a handsome dude back in those days. Below is one of those old photos:

It's hard to believe that it has been almost 30 years since he passed away at the early age of 62.

There are some boxes of documents that I hope to get shredded today which will bring us closer to readiness for our departure on the 1st of April. Another trip to the storage unit between now and the time we leave will be just about all we need to do. There are only 12 days to go before saying so-long to Happy Trails here in Surprise...