About now, you’re questioning why I’m showing pictures of a Jeep below. Long story but I’ll condense it just for you, as most of you possess the attention span of a gold fish – 3 seconds!
This 1997 twenty-three-year-old Jeep has been my companion, my truck, my boat, while saving my life more times than I can count. Bought in Colorado 1999 for $10,000.00 she is named after a buck tooth, big breasted girlfriend I had in my youth - Rachel. In 2006 Rachel was shipped by transport to Miami with the hauler going enroute for God knows why; through California, Texas, New York, Georgia after five weeks, originally told it would take three days, arriving in Florida; loaded on a container ship that went aground in Puerto Rico and finally arrived St. Thomas three months after start of the journey!
Now Rachel is not a normal vehicle, she has always been a working girl. No, you dirty minded men – not that kinda working girl! She has hauled 1,000 pounds of concrete in the back and when the front tires came off the road. No problem, just put 300 pounds on her hood. She’s has carried up to 1,500 pounds of treated lumber in one load, forded flooded roads with water over her engine and coming in the window. Once across, Rachel coughed a few times, shook it off and keep going. Climbed mountain roads straight up and done more things than Jeep Manufacturing ever intended or envisioned she was capable of doing. She has survived countless storms and two major hurricanes.
She has never let me down – not once. Rachel has sat here at the villas for months awaiting my return, I put the key and the ole girl roars to life every single time. Oh, I take care of all her mechanical issues promptly but not a single time did she ever fail me.
But now it’s time for Rachel to retire, guess many say the same about me but we Rachel and I refuse all commonsense thinking. We both are battered, now showing our age and a mite slower than we use to me. But that’s “ok,” Mikey, my long time island friend, has offered to take Rachel and restore her to original condition.
