I was driving home from the auto parts store the other day and this was the sunset. I have been struggling to get something up and going so I can get on the road and start traveling. If you do not know it has been a while I have been working towards this. I started with this van.
Spent some time and money working on it and pushing to get it ready. Come to find out it had a hole in the block behind the starter. Hired a person to change the starter and put in the crankshaft sensor, as it is behind the starter. He never said anything about it so I thought all was good. Come to find out it was and is not good. I have found someone else to help me when I need it now!
Then came the truck! It needed a fuel pump and the transmission replaced. The fuel pump in it started right up. I got the transmission and we got it put in. Fulled with transmission fluid and it goes forwards and backwards but there are still some issues with it. Moving forward it will just jump out of gear and back in again. We are working through them now, I needed a break, as I was getting really frustrated.
The pictures of the sunset kinda brought some thoughts to me as I struggle to get this done. Like we all are, I have a fixed amount of money available to get a vehicle and the parts I need each month. I cannot afford to go and spend $3000.00 on a running vehicle, so I look for ones that need work and with some help do the work to get them running. I have to sell one and hope to recover the money I had in it when things with a vehicle goes wrong. That has not worked out for me at all. Yes, like all of us it is a struggle. That is fine because if it was easy everyone would be doing things like this.
I will put it here at the end of the post again, because no matter what happens on my journey to get on the road, there will always be a light at the end of the road, and if it turns dark, a reminder to rest and regroup, it will come again to remind me to just keep on trying as life goes on and things will work out in the end. Do the setbacks discourage me? Yes, they do, it even gets me angry and upset, then it becomes depressing. To be honest, I have even thought of just giving up the dream I have. I will not give up and I will win. It might be when I am too old to travel but it will not beat me. I have always been able to move forward somehow and that will not change. As I say in all my posts "Always Forward!" I hope everyone has a good night/day, whatever it is in your part of the world!
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