A Bumper Remodel

We had another great service last night in Richton, Mississippi. Praise God for His help.

A Bumper Remodel

The BoggsMobile was due a small remodel and we finally got it done last week. Actually, the BoggsMobile needs lots of remodeling, but you have to begin somewhere. We began on the front bumper. There is nothing like starting at the beginning.

1995 Prevost XL

We have had an official license plate from the state of Ohio for over 12 years. When we put it on, we also purchased two custom frames and a mirrored plate from a store in Nashville. The frames had a lifetime guarantee, but by the time they faded and degraded, the Nashville store was destroyed in the big 2010 flood.

As of July 2020, the state of Ohio no longer requires a front license plate. The old front plate was looking warn and the mirrored plate was too. A change was in order. The frames have not looked good for years, but we left them on out of laziness I suppose. It was time to make the frames vanish.

I found these customizable plates on Amazon.

One evening, KJo helped me remove the frames and the old plates and install two new plates in their place. 

I love the MICROBUS plate! The Prevost Community plate has been in the window since 2014 or so. I may come up with something else for that spot, but it is fine for now.

The front plate on the Green Machine was a mess too. It takes a lot of abuse rolling behind the bus. How do you like this?

2006 Scion xB Envy Green

The old plates will hang on the wall in the barn when we get back to the ranch.

Only 45' of remodeling left to go.

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy

What's Up, Weekend?

Get ready for sensory overload!

We loved the last service of Revival at Midway Friday night. The Lord touched us and we enjoyed His touch. We also got to see my niece Diedre, her husband Ben and my only great nephew Charlie Ray. It was a great start to the weekend.

Steak for lunch Friday did not diminish the weekend at all!

Saturday morning we loaded the Green Machine and pointed it toward Louisiana. We had planned to take the BoggsMobile, but decided Friday to make the 700+ mile loop in the car. That proved not to be the best decision.

We were a little hesitant to trust the Green Machine on a long trip, but it performed wonderfully! It carried us there and back and that is about all you can ask.

Some of you may remember that we replaced the transmission in the Green Machine last fall at 198,000 miles. That was 7,000 miles ago, but we have not driven the car any long distances since then. The longest was 140 miles two weeks ago when KJo and Odie drove alongside the BoggsMobile between Virginia and Tennessee.

Update: Oops, I forgot. Odie reminded me that I drove her home from Tennessee in the car on March 1. I guess this was the second long trip.

Our first major stop in Louisiana was our favorite Mexican buffet in Baton Rouge. It is El Magey Mexican Buffet on Siegen Lane. We discovered this place several years ago and we love it! The price has risen considerably through the years, but it is definitely worth it once in a while.

Wow! So good!

Sunday morning we drove about 2 hours to be in the Pastor Appreciation Service at Christian Tabernacle in Pine Prairie, Louisiana. We were invited to be the surprise guest speaker at Pastor Appreciation for Pastor Chris Juneau and we were thrilled to be there.

This was the very first Pastor Appreciation for Bro. Juneau as this is his first year as Pastor. He was saved in Christian Tabernacle over 20 years ago and He is well loved by all of the saints.

God blessed us with a sweet service and I think Pastor Juneau was properly honored. It was a privilege for us to be a part of the service.

After the service and lunch, we drove 2 hours back east to Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Denham Springs, Louisiana. Pastor Jerry Arnold has driven many miles to attend our revivals in Louisiana and in Mississippi. It was time for us to repay the favor and make time to stop and preach for him.

We appreciate the invitation. We had a wonderful time Sunday night and we look forward to going back soon!

As I mentioned yesterday, we had planned to stay the night in Louisiana, drive to the bus in Alabama Monday morning and then drive the bus to the panhandle of Florida. Hurricane Sally changed our plans.

Since the BoggsMobile was parked directly in the path of Sally, we left after church Sunday evening and drove 256 miles to the bus at Midway Assembly. We drove a total of 466 miles Sunday and 742 miles in two days. I must be a wimp because I felt like someone dragged me 742 miles.😁

Monday morning we were rolling by 8:00 AM and we drove 160 miles to a rest area just east of Jackson, Mississippi. As of Monday, it looks like we are out of the storm path, but if we need to move a bit more west, we can do that easily by God's grace.

Please pray for all of our friends that are potentially in danger.

Thank you for dropping into Mile Markers today.

Davy

Thank you for joining us for a few minutes on Mile Markers!

Davy

Hurricane Sally

We had a full and fun weekend, but the report will have to wait. We are in hurry mode because of hurricane Sally.

When we left the bus behind in Alabama Saturday morning, this storm was forecast to be a tropical storm at the most. By Saturday night the weather guessers were cheering on a category 1 or 2 hurricane with the BoggsMobile in the projected path.

The Green Machine peddled as fast as it could after church Sunday night and we pulled into Midway a few minutes before midnight. We were in bed by one and we plan to flee very soon. God put wheels on buses so they could roll and we intend to roll northwest out of the path of hurricane Sally.

We will catch you up on the weekend soon. Thank you for stopping by.

Davy

A Few Milestones

We love to celebrate milestones on Mile Markers, hence the name of our little space here. We are all about marking the miles as they roll under our wheels. With the world turning upside down the last few months we let a few important milestones pass us by without any remarks at all.

Today, we want to remedy that.

The first one is the twelve year mark of riding down the road in the BoggsMobile. That milestone was reached the last week of March during the first week of "coronavirus can't meeting". 

We purchased the bus on Friday, March 21, 2008, drove to a Flying J in Tallahassee and stayed in it that night. We parked next to our 5th wheel on Saturday, March 29th and began moving into the bus.

It is very difficult to believe the BoggsMobile has been such a big part of our life for 12 years. We fully intended to keep the bus this long IF we lived this long, we just did not expect to live this long. I expected us all to be in heaven by now, but here we are still rumbling down the road.



I always add these two pictures from the day we bought the BoggsMobile. You can see the fear in my eyes

It has served us well.



For those that may not know, the BoggsMobile is a 1995 Prevost XL converted by Featherlite in Sanford, Florida. It was originally converted for a family from southern California. The full conversion was delivered in late 1995 and it is titled as a 1996 Vantare.

This coach served that family a few years and then somehow made its way to a family in the panhandle of Texas. That owner traded it in on a newer coach at Florida Luxury Coach which was also located in Sanford, Florida. We purchased it there, less than 1/2 mile from where it was converted many years before.

We are very thankful for the BoggsMobile that serves as our home on wheels as we travel the country trying to fulfill our calling as evangelists. It is a very good home.

August 17, 2020

This bus belongs to a friend of ours and is for sale. KJo says it is the prettiest bus she has ever seen. I am going to let her next husband buy it for her.

A second missed milestone is the eight year mark of owning and driving the Green Machine. We purchased our Envy Green 2006 Scion xB in early May of 2012. That makes eight years bumping around in our little car. Wow! Although we have put more miles on other vehicles, we have never owned a car or truck anywhere near eight years! That is quite a milestone for us.

When I looked at the picture above, I realized we have also owned the tent trailer eight years. That fell into our hands, by God's grace, eight years ago in February, two months before the Green Machine.

The final milestone we failed to mention recently is our twenty year mark on the road. We have not been on the road twenty consecutive years yet, but twenty total. We are in our 18th year on the road at this time, but we evangelized full time for 2 years and 8 months from the middle of June 1990 to the middle of February 1993.

That means we passed the twenty year mark around the first of May 2020. We have spent TWENTY years of our lives on the road, wow! Sometimes it seems like two months and sometimes it seems like forty years!

But at least we are not pastoring a church!

Thank you for stopping in today. See you soon.

Davy

200,000 Mile Marker

Saturday evening I took this picture of the odometer on the Green Machine.

Can you read it? 

200197 driving miles on the Envy Green 2006 Scion Xb. The odometer rolled over to 200,000 miles the previous Saturday, January 25, on the way back to Sweeny after fetching Odie at the airport. For some reason, a picture on the 200,000 mile mark alluded us, but it really did happen.

We purchased the Green Machine in May 2012 with around 74,000 miles on it. We had driven 26,000 miles and rolled the odometer to 100,000 by Thanksgiving Day 2013.

We were averaging 1370 miles per month those first 18 months and I wrote then that if we kept that average, I predicted the Green Machine would roll over to 200,000 miles on the odometer around  73 months later about the first of January, 2020.

Wow! I did not miss it by much.

By February 2018 the Green Machine had 174,000 total miles and we had put on 100,000 thousand of them. Our average per month was running higher and it looked like we would hit 200,000 in the summer of 2019. Evidently, our average took a dip again and it took until January 2020 as I predicted 100,000 miles before.

Although the little Green Machine has given us a little trouble in the last year, the 200,000 Mile Marker is a pretty big deal. Counting the miles the Green Machine has been pulled behind the bus, it probably has considerably over 360,000 rolling miles. Not bad at all.

We have put some money into it over the last year, plus some big preventative maintenance the year before, so we would like to roll it down the road a little longer. It is hard to imagine 300,000 on the odometer of the Green Machine, but if it makes it, we should hit it the mark about April 2026. We will keep you posted.

We praise God for a good running car! Thank you for tuning in today.

Davy