This is actually the very first blog. Written by suds, published by bubs.

I'm compelled to begin this blog by stealing a line from a book I've never read.  A friend of mine once told me that his most favorite first line out of any book was as follows:  

Owing to a favor I once made a cow

Feels fitting, you'll understand later, but here I go.

Owing to a favor I once made a cow, me (Delilah) and Daniel (heretofore referred to as the most honerable "Danimal") have scored ourselves a Sprinter van.  We found it in Galway, NY on a side-jog from a summer lake trip.  The seller's name was John.  We in turn found him on a wooded backcountry road, an ex-cop and motorcycle racer who had just crashed his BMW sedan and was looking to liquidate some cash quickly. The Sprinter he had for sale was a white 2003 mid-sized standard cargo van with no exhaust system. It rumbled down the road.  Me and Daniel look at each other.  John said, "that's nothing, that's just the way these sound," from the passenger seat; he had hesitated earlier when I had asked for a test drive.  We did not dispute John, we did not believe him either.  Later on, this same exhaust system would have cost us over $1,000 to install new if it wasn't for Danimal scouring the earth (really just the Mid Atlantic) for a cheap alternative, coming up with a guy in Pennsylvania parting out his '05 Sprinter muffler with built-in catyllitic converter for only $250.00.  What a guy.  Anyways it worked out perfectly, other than that Danimal had crawled through poison ivy to hack the part off and had to appeal several times to the rash, with salves, washes, scalding hot showers, and the "hair dryer method", to try to back it down.  Once I saw him pick up a cannister of Morton salt and pour it down his belly.  He said he thought it might work on the rash because once he had swum in the Dead Sea with a cut that had then healed overnight.  

Never did finish that post, but hey, welcome to our blog thingy!  In the process of putting together ideas on what we wanted out of our Sprinter we sure learned a lot from some great blogs out there.  This one might end up more of a chronicle than a reference guide.  But, as most of you know, there is too much information out there in the world anyways!  So, feel free to go ahead and kill these pages, kill your TV, return your Amazon drones for a full refund. . .and GO OUTSIDE & PLAY and be sparkley!
Xo, Delilah