Heidi and Hudo Sail the Panama Canal
Heidi and Hudo have sailed the Panama Canal and have now crossed Central America. Pictures on Instagram show the journey. The following picture shows the canal as it lives up to its nickname, “The Big Ditch”
Heidi & Hudo Hit the High Seas
Heidi’s Spot tracker now shows her off the coast of Cuba, heading south.
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Heidi is Looking for More Adventure. Next stop Lima, Peru?
Heidi has just finished a trip up to the very tony town of Palm Beach, Florida. Palm Beach has some of the most expensive shopping available in the U.S., and some of the most expensive real estate. One property on South Ocean Blvd has an asking price of $74M and boasts a master bedroom of over 4000 sq. ft. Even Heidi is not immune to the hype surrounding Palm Beach.
Hurricane Heidi Hits Miami!
Heidi and Hudo have made it to Miami. As near as I can translate, she will spend about a month in the city known as the Gateway to the America’s before moving on to Central and South America.
Hudo is still having his senior moments as shown in the photo. Read More…
Hurricane Heidi Enters Florida
Following a major overhaul in for Hudo in North Carolina, Heidi and Hudo are continuing their journey around the world. They are now in Northern Florida. On the east Coast, Heidi has visited Daytona and the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral (Home of the Real Dr. Phil – Click HERE to read about Dr. Phil Scarpa’s exciting work at KSC). On the West Coast Heidi has landed in Naples, and Clearwater. Hudo seems to be purring like a kitten again, as does Heidi.
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- Hudo on the sands of Daytona.
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- Hudo shows “The Right Stuff” at the Cape
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- Naples Beach
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- Heidi’s new tracker arrived in the mail.
And some additional good news; Heidi’s new Spot tracker has arrived in the mail, so the staff at Mongolope.com will be able to see Heidi’s locations from the Spot Map, instead of trying to translate German Instagram.
Source: Currently driving around the world in a 1930 Hudson
Once Again – Currently driving around the world in a 1930 Hudson!
Hopefully, Heidi and Hudo have Willy Nelson on the wireless because the two of them are finally back on the road again. The root cause of Hudo’s troubles turned out to be a broken oil line in the oil pan. He has beautiful new pistons, a “new” cyclinder head, rebuilt crank, his brakes have been repaired, and the two of them are now visiting Savannah, GA. Regrettably their GPS marker has disappeared from Hudo’s cab, so we cannot see the minute by minute updates of their trip, unless Heidi finds a replacement.
Gallery of Repairs
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- The culprit
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- Overhaul in Progress
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- All repaired and ready for a shakedown cruise.
Gallery of Savannah
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- Savannah
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- Savannah
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- Savannah
Hudo to Undergo Overhaul in Charlotte, NC
Heidi had been enjoying her trip down the East Coast of the US. As one might expect from an octagenarian on an around-the-world-voyage, Hudo has had some issues. In Wilmington NC, Hudo experienced technical difficulties. Though the preliminary diagnosis was a thrown rod, upon disassembly it appeared that Hudo re-ingested a piston ring. Looking at the pictures, the engineering team at Mongolope.com found the damage to be unusual because how did the piston ring get above the cylinder wall to cause so much damage?
Hudo was reassembled and according to the Instagram posts, failed his shakedown drive. Further inspection showed damage to the connecting rod journals. Loose journal bearings could allow the piston to transit out of the cyclinder at TDC and catch a ring on the edge on the way down. Based on the new findings, Mongolope.com’s engineering division is glad that Heidi is investing in an overhaul of Hudo’s crankshaft and journal bearings before they continue their journey.
However, Hudo only had 15,000 miles since the overhaul in Germany. Heidi feels the short life on the engine calls into question the quality of the “overhaul” Hudo received in Germany. Regardless, Hudo and Heidi cannot continue without the bottom end of the engine being reworked. So Hudo has been loaded into a trailer for transport to Charlotte NC. Heidi is now very grateful to be piloting a loaner MG around Charlotte while she awaits the completion of Hudo’s rebuild. Since Charlotte is home to the Charlotte Motor Speedway, we hope Hudo will be able to find the very best of care in the “Queen City”. We wish Heidi and Hudo a speedy recovery from this delay, and all the best on the rest of their journey.
(Note: Some inaccuracies in the above summary may be due to my poor skills at translating German. However, the the team at Mongolope.com is also available to mistranslate several other languages at exorbitant rates in addition to mistranslating German )
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- Heidi in an MG
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- Hudo on the way to Charlotte via trailer
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- Damaged connecting rod journal bearings
See Heidi’s site for up to the minute information.
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