My van, Mo, had a past life with FedEx and, after 44,000 miles of things thrown, tossed and dropped onto the floor of her cargo area, it was pretty beat up. To mitigate the chance of rust development, I spent the first month of van ownership scrubbing, priming and painting.
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Someone once said that words have meaning and names have power, and it’s widely acknowledged that vessels, sea-faring and otherwise, should be named. So I knew, when I bought the van, that I would name her. But I didn’t want to rush it. I had to get to know the
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She’s a 2022 Ford Transit with all-wheel drive, a 148″ wheelbase and a high roof. She used to be a rental and, I think, was mostly used for FedEx deliveries. I went to Maryland to get her, traveling 3.5 hours on a train and then 45 minutes by car, past
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March gets such a bad rap, y’all. She’s brought us a lot of chaos over the years, including a global pandemic, but she’s my birthday month, and I love her. March is almost always a banner month for me, and this one was no different. I did a lot of
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1 – MEGABABE’S GREEN DEO I made the switch to natural deodorant when I was deployed in 2016. I was in Kuwait where daily temperatures liked to hang out in the triple digits, and I figured if natural deodorant could take care of me in that environment, it could easily
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