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But I also remember a lot of college kids made gas money by hauling Coors (limited distribution back then) back home for holidays or on weekend road trips. Sold at a premium where it was hard to get.
I also recall many of my Texas friends refusing to drink their in-state brews, favoring (here it comes Scraps) Budweiser. An ex-boss even married the daughter of a Bud distributor, for love of something. Not her, I guess. The marriage barely outlasted the reception.
Telling the story of the reaction to me showing up with Coors at my first college party at Arizona State way back would get me busted for racism these days.
 
Some things are just not right…fruit-flavored beer is near the top of that list.
 
I mostly agree, except a nice Kriek Lambic on a hot day … the Belgians have only been brewing it for a couple thousand years :beer:

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I didn't want to clog up the PP21 thread with my return trip drama. When leaving the party, Mike one of our hosts suggested we drive Hwy. 44 across the state instead of the 90. What a fantastic drive, nobody at all on the road for the whole trip, except maybe a dozen vehicles and one huge tractor trailer who took out my windshield. It had to finally happen, but man it almost came through the glass right in my face, scarey.

That was the start of the drive home from hell. Right after breaking the glass the wagon totally went dead. all electrics went silent for a split second and fired right back up. That kind of thing will get to you when you're on a road with nothing around. About that time I started to hear the brakes rubbing when hitting the pedal, it got worse as the day went on and then another electric stall, we kept driving. Late in the day we found a small town with a hotel and auto parts store, stopped to regroup.

Next morning it was raining as I took apart the rear brakes to find no pads on the piston side of both rear brakes, rotors shot, worst I've ever had on any of my vehicles. The auto parts had the pads for my 07 4runner calipers, but that's it, no rotors or calipers. So, pads, jack stands, piston depressor and tarp in hand and in the rain I replaced what I could and headed for home.

The rain kept it up all day, but making it to Iowa the rain got harder and so the wagon decided to shut off twice more at highway speeds. It falls flat then immediately fires up, nerve racking. By the time we roll over the Mo. border the rain made it hard to see even with the wipers on high, so it's a good time for the driver's side wiper to slip on the gear and make seeing impossible. I played with it in the rain getting soaked for the second time in the day, but only managed to wipe half the view. Running for home the rain let up, wagon ran smooth and the brakes worked.

We made it home, pet the dog, checked the goats and drank three very quick beers on the porch.

When's the next Pig Party! :beer:
 
WTF????????

Thank good you made it home safe. We are rendezvousing at the same start point this weekend if you get her sorted out!!!!
 
Not sure but his grandma was from "Missurah" as she would say.
 
Yeah, that electrical thing has me worried. I'll see if it left a code, but if not I'll call in my electric guru who tuned the computer. I'm not sure what's going on with the brakes dragging? I'll replace everything and look closer and those flipping wipers, bad design.
 
scrapdaddy said:
When you own a pig you get used to it. Something is always going to happen, but I wish it was just one at a time.
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Yeah that’s a lot of drama fo’ sure, glad you stayed safe.

I’m putting those same rear brakes on mine so will be watching to see what the problem was... :hmm:
 
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