[lulu16]

Ours looks like this and we still have to remove- the wheelchair lift in the back. I'm 5'7 1/2 and I can stand in it, but will trick it out for maximum storage, which for all the emergency gear my heart desires. The dogs get the back seat but otherwise it just a big honking space.

http://www.2040-cars.com/ford/E-Series-Van/2007-ford-e350-xlt-super-duty-wheelchair-van-handicap-extended-braun-ricon-lift-13560/

[wbarmy]

I also have a 2007 Ford E350 XLT passenger van with the 5000 lb towing package. Here in Sierra Leone it gets over the bad roads with nary a problem. And every eye turns to look at it because it is a tank compared to the little chinese and Toyota junk they have.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My father lived in some small town in Oklahoma as a small child during the depression. There was a guy who ran a greasy spoon who kept a pet coyote chained up in the back and one day it got away. He offered my dad some money to find it and he did. The guy who ran the greasy spoon was Clyde Barrow.

[laplata]

I suggest you do some research before driving through Mexico into Belize. I’ve heard some horror stories and some stories where there were no problems.

[PAR35]

If you are stupid enough to drive through Mexico make sure your will is up to date. Sounds like a drug gang member will be getting a decent truck.

[bramps]

My drivers side seatbelt in my Ford Ranger doesn’t work. Now I know who to blame!

Have great, safe trip.

[bert]

you can check out our van travels for the last nearly 10 years.

http://travelingwhenwecan.blogspot.com/

We like to travel national historic trails and this year are going to Independence MO to take the Oregon trail westward and the California trail back east. At some point we will turn south to the Red Rocks of Utah and Arizona that we dearly love.

We have a ‘06 Sprinter outfitted for touring. We have taken it to the Arctic Circle in Alaska, traveled the Great River Road from Lake Itaska MN to Venice LA that traverses mid America following the mississippi river, and the Butterfield trail from Memphis to San Fran. The Butterfield is the route of the first Trancontinental US mail contract

We like off the interstate travel to see real America and taste what the locals make best

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Anyone else have a story they can dine on about someone who has created or done something, cool and significant.

When I was into RC aircraft, I used to buy my planes and supplies from a retired gentleman who used to work for McDonnell-Douglas. It turns out he was on the team that developed the control surfaces for the F-15. He also had a working, ducted-fan engine model of the white and blue F-15 prototype.

[Big Red Badger]

I’m a Ford Van guy myself and planning a road trip thru Northern AZ.
Route66 at least to Flagstaff..
Should do it This year while I can still remember what a route66 Is !

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I hope you have researched where you can and can’t legally take your dogs. I would hate to see them get confiscated at one of the borders

[Howe_D_Dewty]

Best wishes on your journey to Belize. I have driven a bus loaded with children’s supplies to Belize from USA. It was a difficult and at times dangerous journey. However I met the most wonderful and faithful people on that mission trip. Best wishes again and I hope to hear from you at the end of the wonderful adventure.
Be careful...
God Bless You..

[Vendome]

I know the guy who invented the Apple computer...and I have lots of funny stories about him but, won’t share them here.

Woz is way kewel...

[ShasheMac]

An elderly lady I knew, she’s since died, was the cousin of Rudy Perz, who created the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

[umgud]

I have a bucket list too and it does not include Mexico and certain other Latin countries. I quit going south after I barely escaped an unexpected incident directed at me. It involved criminals and cops, actually one and the same.

Over the years I have taken note of all the horror stories and have just concluded the odds and the risk is just too great for me. YMMV.

[Vendome]

[To Hell With Poverty]

One of my best friends is a descendant of the Clanton Gang of O.K. Corral fame. Her family owns the Clanton Cafe on rt. 66. She is one partying machine, loves to have me over for drinks just to see how wrecked she can get me. A trouble maker true to the family name, but a real lover of humanity with a heart of gold. I love her to death.

[real saxophonist]

We had a family friend who was an Astronaut. Went to high school with my sister.
Sonny Carter

I also had a nephew who went to the Citadel on a baseball scholarship. Son of the aforementioned sister, who married a pro baseball player.

[Hebrews 11:6]

My great-uncle Richard Scheffel, born c. 1886, knew the Wright brothers in Dayton. Richard hung around, as teenaged boys do, their bicycle shop, since it was the coolest thing before autos. He had some fun stories about them he used to tell us.

[dainbramaged]

I am a direct descendant of one of the eight families who accompanied William the Conqueror in his conquest of England, 1066.
I once gave Cesar Romero a ride when his car ran out of gas.
I saw Cloris Leachman at the airport.
I met the grandson and family of Admiral Richard Byrd at a naval ship launching in Seattle - let him borrow my yo-yo.
Our next door neighbor in the early 60's owned the company that built the nuts and bolts that hold the Space Needle in place.

[leaning conservative]

Ping

[TEXOKIE]

I have family members who lived near NASA in the 60-s and 70 and went to church with a number of the Apollo astronauts. Boy do they have stories!