One more reason I’m only almost a Hippie - I love big, gas-guzzling machines! All kinds! Love them, love them, love them. I completely place the blame on Greg Evigan and a very sweet (furry) friend of his! Yes, these two guys right here:

….are definitely at fault! But aren’t they both just so cute?!

I was in the fourth grade, and I was totally hooked on their show, BJ and the Bear. And ever since then, I just can’t get enough of big machines! Construction trucks, giant construction trucks (Ooh - even better! You know, those kind that can’t drive on our regular roads!), semi trucks, pick-up trucks - all of them!

So in thinking about how to differentiate this blog from my blogspot one, I’ve decided to call it “H2″ - at least for a little while. I do love Hummers (Evil hippie! Bad hippie!) and so I thought it was perfectly fitting!

You may take comfort in the fact that the truck I covet right now is a 2000 Nissan Frontier Crew Cab. Not only is it a mini-truck, but, it is a Japanese vehicle - two things to make it a bit nicer to the environment.

There is another, though, that I love so dearly - and it is absolutely horrible for the environment! It does, however, cost around $150,000 - so I’m pretty sure I won’t be buying one anytime soon! ;)

 

But is that not just a THING OF BEAUTY, or what?!

It’s the new International CXT.  Some of you Posties may remember the Big Blue Monster - he was a CXT - oh, how I longed to meet him!  ;)

Our last house in Texas, was a few miles up the road from an International location. When they first got these trucks in, hubby and I were going crazy, we were so excited! He kept passing there to go to work, and he wasn’t even sure what he was seeing those first days, because, the one truck he saw was way in the back. But he kept trying to explain to me what he saw and we were both just freaking out! It was kind of like, two kids peeking at Christmas presents together, and discovering that Mom and Dad had bought them the coolest gifts EVER! Ha! Mark finally decided that, yes, it had to have been some kind of giant pick-up truck, and that was it! I had had enough! I was going to see for myself!

I drove my little minivan-mom self over there, and I drove right in past the ‘Employees Only’ signs and drove right to the back of the buildings! I had to know what they had back there! And besides, what is the worst they could tell me? “Uh, ma’m, you’re not supposed to be back here.” And then I leave - no problem.

Only - that never happened. Nobody ever said anything to me. And guess what? They had about twenty of those bad boys back there! I parked my minivan facing the trucks, turned off the engine, and just sat there s-a-l-i-v-a-t-i-n-g! Serious! I needed the Brawny man to clean off my steering wheel!

I returned on multiple occasions to sit and yearn for this fine piece of machinery, like any true truck nut would, and no one ever said anything to me. Well, except for the time I brought Mark with me, and we saw a man out there with the trucks, so we went to talk to him. He told us some more about the trucks, and their cost, and that only ‘Daddy Warbucks’ and his pals would even be test-driving them!

So yes, in bad hippie form, I am a hardcore truck nut! And I’ve been thinking about a few cute ways to set this blog apart from its ancestor, and I think “H2″ is just the perfect way to do that! So Hippie Spelunker - “H2″ it is!