We knew the truck sputtered because of its carburator but no problem. Kenny encouaged the vehicle to no to stall on them by cusing and yelling at it to keep going but it didnt listen. He got it going again and we stopped to fuel up. After some minor adjustments it ran fine. On our way again. I decided I wanted to ride with Mark and Kenny drove the Lumina behind us. After getting 10miles or so from Tifton a loud bang come from under the hood and the smoke poured out. Yeah if you figured it out number 4 went through the block. We figured we would just leave it there and come back that night with truck and trailer.
If things couldn't have gotten any worse than that, they did. We all got in the Lumina and headed home for sure. We stopped to do sight seeing for a minute and kept hearing a thumping sound. It was the radio so we turned it off. On down HWY 84 the cruise control out of no where quit working. No biggy, didn't think nothing about it kept on driving. At this time I was under the wheel. 18 miles away from Waycross, GA, everytime Mark would roll down the window the speedometer would jump from 80mph (speed I was doing) up to 90mph then down to 70mph then back to 80mph. Plus the windows wouldn't roll down as fast as they should. We knew something was up when the A/C was next to go. Then the car completely shut down, steering got tight and we were stuck in the middle of no where and closet city was about 18 miles away. We had a cell that worked and called our family and told them to send someone to pick us up. After Kenny trying his best to get someone to stop, he did manage a trucker. All the passenager vehicles wouldn't stop for Kenny when he pulled up a little ways one side of his shorts, but considering the bugs were attacking him and not me he might have been scratching. He just wasn't having any luck at all. They got in the lane, looked at us and sped up faster. After jumping around and waving his arms he got us a trucker that said he would send someone to us. No one never came. We started to walk to the city and a lady with 2 rat terriers picked us up and took us to the town. After countless hours of walking around the town we waited for Mark's granddad to show. I tell you what that was the best site ever. We picked up the cars and got the Lumina to run enough to get us home. After trading out the battery every time it would die, we made it home. His granddad had the other battery that we took out charging under the hood of his truck and when we had a problem he would come up behind us and help us out. He basically was following right behind us some ways back.
So now we have a Suzuki which amazingly it still runs considering it has a piston out its block. The lumina sits so now I'm waiting to put our trusting wagon back on the road. We had the wagon off because it had problems. Turns out its carburator was coming apart. Kenny was glad to be back home and so were we. I don't ever want another trip like that. All of that to just pick up one vehicle and get 2 stuck on the side of the road. Not a good experience at all. We had some good times there. We had nice dinner at Ryans and seen a movie while the wait. I know Kenny had a good time until the Samurai died. I know I didnt like it when I was getting bit by mosquitos but they turned to him so I thank him for being there because he got attacked by mosquitos and not me. We don't have pictures of the whole in the block because the digi got left out in the rain and quit on us. Thanks Kenny for joining us on our trip, we had fun even though the bad things happen.
