It was last Saturday (4/12/09). My family and I (Mom and Step-dad Ken from this site) got up at 6:00 A.M. and drive from Houston, TX and drove up to Boonville, AR. It took use 9 hours to drive up there and get the truck, but when a couple of days before there was a tornado when through a town 100 miles be before Boonville. I though it was going to make it a little more difficult to get through to the truck because of all the down trees and construction going on. It turn out that all the roads where cleared up. That made it a lot easier for the drive back home. We arrived at the house around 4 P.M. After looking at the truck we realized that the truck was in better shape than we thought.. We tried using a come-along to get the truck on the trailer, but we quickly found out that it did not work. . After we got the truck on the trailer we tied it down and got back on the road. It was good drive home. We had no problems. We made some stops to make sure nothing was coming lose or apart. My Step-dad got sleepy so we stopped at a rest area and let him take a nap for a couple of hours. (I did not wont my mom to drive!) I got him up about 1 A.M and started on the road again. We finally got home 7:30 A.M.
That had to be the easiest MV road trip i've ever had. No problems whatsoever. I guess Mr Murfey lost the invite for our trip. We took plenty of pics and we will get some on tonight. He has wanted a M37 ever since he saw one and he saved up his own money. So i'm pretty proud of him. His mom thinks i'm rubbing off on him. I can't figure out why?
Once we got it to the museum in houston we got it started pretty easily and we are planning on spending some quaility time with it this weekend. We will post more pics.
Thanks again Warthog! Your M715 still has a M35 there to pal around with. To bad we couldn't meet, I've found that Steel Soldiers are the best people in the world.
My First Military Truck
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