Upstream of the Herd

The Old Ford Exploder ha s gone to the Big Junkyard In The Sky. That was one great car and we had a lot of fun with it. I bought it right after my little sickly runt of a baby came home from the hospital because of all the medical junk that he needed that wouldn't fit in the little pickup truck I had 21 years ago. I told my husband: "I'm gonna go to (Big Name Used Car Dealer). I'm gonna buy the biggest car I can find, I'm gonna buy the first car I see, and I'm not even gonna test drive it." He said "You're crazy. No one buys a car like that." But I have to say that car was the best used car I've ever owned! I knew that car inside and out and asked to car to do so many things that it wasn't really designed for. My favorite days with it were the ones where we drove "in the river" and off-roaded it up and over the mountains, while avoiding boulders and cacti, to get to a small, walled in spring at a friend's ranch hidden De