With the price of fuel up I perfer longer trips as the mileage goes up some anyway and it gets the truck warmed up and the soot ran out of it.

but you do run into to some strange places to eat

here's the redneck seafood diner I had

 

I use to run Hot shot with my 97, When I drove around a city make deliverysand piking up frieght, when I finaly climed a good step hill is when I could tell a change in power. and new the exhaust is cleaned out. I was pulling a 9000 lb trailer with 3000 to 3 custumized vans (1600lbs)

 

now thats funny. . .I may have to try that the next time I have hot dogs, fry them up and call it calamari

but with the price of Diesel around here, 4.65/gal the cheapest I can find, the yoda has been getting alot of abuse as of late.

 

Hey Drew, send some of that $4.65 fuel up this way! My local tribal owned station went up to $4.80 and they are still the cheapest around here. I was driving the '98 Ferd Explorer I inherited from my brother, but it doesn't get any better than my dually (19mpg). So I'll keep running the S-10 (25mpg) for awhile. As for them wild lookin' hot dogs, We enjoy looking for out of the way home town resturants when we travel. Most of the time its better food, and a more pleasant atmoshpere. Plus there ain't to many McDonald's that carry pasty's on the menu! (thats pronounced with a short a not a long one)

 

That's what I missed since the fast food craze hit, all the good Mom and Pop restaurants you could find on the road, now days youeating the same junk coast to coast.

Everyone in a while you get surprised, we went toHickory NC to race our dwarf cars, got up one morning and went to one of the bigger sit down chain joints that had a breakfast buffet.

I said anything to fill the hole, dam everything on the buffet was great, that had people there whocould cook, all our race cars where over weight that day, then came back toFla and said dam that food was great last weekend so I went to the local one, and nothing on the buffet was worth eating,mmmmm wonder why they closed???

But I still try to find a good restaurant, I found one in town, place looks a hundred years old, no fancy anything, but even the meatloaf was great, cost a little more than the box food stores but it was worth it,we use to have a lot of the old restaurants like that, but at last now we have good lookingrestaurants with food that tastes like the box it came in.