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| Click on the links above to see our "Wok-umentary" of our three
month journey living in a bus as our family of five converts the
world's first luxury motor home to run on free, waste vegetable oil,
and then drive home, cross country on
The Fat Of America |
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September 28th, 2006
Location: Niagara Falls, Canada and then.... Providence, RI!
Day 78
 
We did it!. We finally got back home. Coast to coast - on
Vegetable oil
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Anke got pretty good at making fresh Sushi on the
road. Maybe it was not super fresh, but Wasabihas strong
antiseptic qualities. In Elbee, a bathroom was never far
away if you need it. Here we are, enjoying our last Sushi
meal on the trip. |
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Here is the Adler family, on the Canadian side of
the Falls. Jonah freaked out and did not want to go on the
"Maid of the Mist" boat ride. The sissy... it's like he's
three!! I stayed dockside while the ladies went on that boat
ride that frankly, I was a bit scared to go on too. |
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As you can see, there is a lot of water going on
about here. I was on the dock with Jonah, when Ankle took
these pics. |
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Here is Anke, "Motorhome Schooling" Lilly as we
are going into almost a month of missed school. Anke ties
in the presidents with Mount Rushmore, and as many of the places
we visited as possible. |
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Home at last! After at least 3500 miles, 78
days, and spending every minute together as a family, we finally
get to our house in Providence. Elbee actually seems to
make the house look small!
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Yep, looks like we won't be parking her on the
street in front of the house. |
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Our neighbors thought we were all dead. When
they heard we were a day away, the day care next door made these
"Welcome Home" signs. All the neighbors came out when they
heard the roar of Elbee's 11 Liters. They were all so
wonderful and greeted us as if we just came back from the moon.
The threw a Barbeque for us that night, cooked, bought the food,
and got me drunk enough to tell them my inner most secrets.
I have to move now. |
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Here is the tripometer, which was reset when I
filled the tank in Montana. The spedometer and odomer are
about 10% off, so we actually went about three hundred miles
further than the odometer indicates since we left Tigman in
Montana. |
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These pictures were taken just after I pulled up
to the house in Providence. We ran out of money. Both
the credit cards we took with us were long since declined, and
our cash ran out way before that! I forgot where it was
that I spent my Emergency $100 bill; you know, the one folded up
tightly and hidden n my wallet from back in the days when I had
a job.
In order to get home, to pay the NJ toll booths, our six year
old Julia was sweet enough to lend us her Tooth Fairy and
allowance money she had been saving. (She got 33 points a
day on that loan - go JuJu!)
This picture is important to me. You can see several factors
that had been stressing me these last weeks:
- Six dollars in Cash that belonged to JuJu
- A worn out, dilapidated credit card that was
declined anyhow
- Our diesel tank on EMPTY!
- Our Vegetable Oil Tank on Empty!
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Lucky for us, as I had calculated, our WVO fill up
at the Royal Buffet Chinese restaurant in Chicago actually DID
get us all the way home. I suppose I could have always
grabbed more oil anywhere along the way - but I was confident I
would not have to. THat big ass veggie tank was going to
prove itself, gosh darn it! Check it out!
From Chicago to Providence, 1,000 miles, a 21 ton bus, a
family of five, 70MPH. How cool. I almost can't
believe it!
All from the energy found in a dirty dumpster in the back of
an alley somewhere in the Chicago suburbs.
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