The angle and the Lock were all jacked up on poor Blue’s door. When we took apart the lock we lost the pins and had to rekey the lock with new pins. With the angle, we used a 30 ton jack to move the door in to place.

For some, 60 degrees is cold for us, its perfect flip flop weather. We found our flip flop weather in Alabama. We fill our days with kayaking, Disc golfing, scooter, walking and good food.

Filling our days with this and that.

Rented a car and cruised around the south visiting the touristy spots in the dead of winter. Quiet and chilly, just the way we like it. We had the south of France to ourselves.

Spent our holiday season with family in California. Left Blue parked up safely in Nashville while we play.

Back to work for our final stretch of Tour. Edmonton AB was our first show back so we got to deadhead our work buses north from Nashville. Took a week and enjoyed our cruise.

We couldnt be more blessed with friends and family. We were able to get Blue in a shop to replace her slack adjusters in the rear. Took some heat to remove the old ones. Now she brakes like a pro.

Let the Sweating begin!

Getting back on the road for work. Same tour we started in March. We got our much needed mind reset and now on to leg #3. This leg is gonna be ACTUALLY work. Long drives coming our way. Nashville to Boston just to start us off. Then Boston to Florida. Oofda

Our friends at work gave us a chance to look under our girl. She’s mighty impressive for being over 30 years old. Learned a few things we can do to get her tuned up. Slack adjusters and engine mounts are our priority. Feeling proud of our girl.

When the crew flies to the next location we get to choose where we park up for the night. A lot of drivers in this industry park up at Truck Stops and sleep for 8 hours. Rusty and I look for RV parks with pools to relax in after our long day of driving. This has been the tour of Pooling it up!

1 month at work deserves a good break. We’ve had the pleasure of enjoying our time off with friends and family for the past couple weeks up in our home territory. We can’t help but smile and sigh coming back to our Home, Blue Steel. We found a spot to plug in hiding among the fleet for the weekend. We prepare for the next work adventure.

We find ways to entertain ourselves in between shifts. Our little 2 wheel E Scooters help. They go in the bellies of Wrangler and Mountaineer while we drive and we pull them out to explore the cities we land in.

Vacation to work in just over two weeks. 2,883 miles just to clock in. Blue gets a rest now while we pick up our work machines and get them ready to roll. We will be on tour from March to August with time off for adventures in between.

After only being parted for 2 weeks we find ourselves relieved to be home. Just enough time for us to give Blue Steel some TLC before we hit the road for another cross country adventure. This time it’s for 6 months of work in Nashville. Dusting off our retirement pants for a uniform of driving. Summer months we stay busy driving buses they hand over to us, so Blue Steel will have a nice home in the bus parking lot where we get our work buses. Whenever we park our work buses for a short break we will always have a home to go to and no longer need the arms of a hotel. We are so very excited about the upcoming months. Stay tuned for more on the road stories!

We finally made it to California where the diesel prices are absurd, over $5 a gallon! We have a 180 gallon fuel tank and at that price it would take us a whole paycheck just to fill her. No joy riding for us. We planned out to enter Cali with a full tank and when we arrived in The Bay Area we were just at 3/4s, setting ourselves up perfectly for driving north and not filling until Oregon.

When your friend calls and tells you to join him at his timeshare that includes a lazy river and waterslides you pack up and make necessary appointments in the surrounding area.

Nervous and completely excited we picked our departure date and packed her belly full of our life. We made sure to pack the necesseties so naturally the foldable Ebike and folding moped got vip parking in the bays. Before the departure we gave Blue some wonderful upgrades under the hood, we wanted her purring like a kitten. We stocked up and changed her filters, including the $88 Air filer that was roughly the size of an empty keg. She was upgraded and cleaned throughout her electrical boxes, fresh batteries for the engine and for the house. We have a 12 and 24 volt system and have about 8 batteries running our world. All powered up and on the road. When we left we had only “planned” for our first destination, Colorado. My old stomping grounds and a fine destination.

Parked up in the Dells of Wisconsin we took some time to work on our new baby. Plugged in to a simple garage outlet we went to work finding the mystery to her non starting issue. Blue’s engine was in working order after Rust hardwired the transmission module to get Blue the final 5 miles to her safe haven. That was only a temporary solution though, Blue was cranking but not firing up. We had plenty of time to scour through every inch of her just to familiarize ourselves and learn more about what makes her tick. Stocked with 6 binders of information from part numbers to wire schematics to every manual for every device inside, we dove in. Power wasn't getting to the right place. There was a sneaking suspicion it was a simple solution if we could just locate where. The hunt was on!

It was looking glum after a week of searching we were still scratching our heads. When suddenly Rusty calls out from the rear with the exclamation I had been waiting for. Eureka. A small 7.5 amp fuse had blown. It was zip tied and tucked away in the rear electrical box in the engine compartment. Since we have fuses laying around, we swapped them out and she started right up.