BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT
over the past few years we've gone through quite a few vehicles -
some have moved on to the great scrapyard in the sky
and others we have gifted or traded with other family members...
maybe one of these are how you came to find our site.
as you can see, we feel that in order to escape "the box",
you should express yourself over your entire vehicle -
not just on little rectangles on the bumper.
"Our Rainbow Ark" - ORA for short -
is our current vehicle for time travel.
She was a used uhaul with orange and white paint when we got her,
but now she's all loved up and i've built a mobile home in the back of her.
She was gifted to us by SilverFang.
We went to Portland to pick her up and gifted Granny to a single mother of four.
We are running her mainly off of recycled fryer grease
and you can find out how to convert your diesel vehicle here:
Veggie Oil Conversion
the Highway Beautification Project is our effort to plant the seed
that we don't all have to look, act, and be alike -
everyone has an opportunity to have their own moving billboard -
so why not share ideas, inspirations, and messages with your family as you travel?
if you want to be a part of our HBP then contact us
and we'll help you get your ride beautiful too!
we love to take things that were going to be put in a junkyard
and give them a few more miles down the road.
often the vehicles we've rehabbed have helped us,
and/or the people we've passed them on to immensely.
if you have an unwanted vehicle that you would like to donate to our cause -
CONTACT us and we'll make sure that someone who could use it gets it.
Granny -
we bought this 1981 Diesel Caddilac to convert to veggie oil, but never got that far.
we ended up passing her on to a mama with four children in Portland
when we were giften our new vehicle Hugo <-pictures soon to come.
"Glenda" -
we rode in Glenda to pick up Bertha three years ago with Natasha and Tony,
then a year or so later traded Beloved with them for Glenda
so they could hit the road and we were staying in town.
then passed back to Natasha, Tony. and Serenity
when we got Granny
"Ima Gine Shanti"
we bought Imagine for $560 in Ohio, made her into a house on wheels
and drove her down to help with Katrina clean up in Gulfport, Waveland, and New Orleans.
after that she took 20 some volunteers to the annual rainbow gathering in Colorado.
leaking two gallons of tranny fluid per tank of gas, she was destined for the scrapyard.
we finally released her in Utah soon after the gathering
where she was reshaped into a refriderator sized hunk o metal for recycling.
we'll miss you Ima Gine
"Lola" aka "Bertha"
Bertha came to us as an answer to a prayer less than 30 minutes after praying it.
we were in a community in Arizona and feeling like it might be tiome to go.
Rae was five months pregnant and so we didn't really want to be on the road
without a dependable vehicle with a bed in it. as we walked down the mountain from our little cottage
we told Spirit we would go if we were provided such a vehicle.
upon arriving in the kitchen we met a beautiful sister named Turtle who told us she was a bit of a Gypsy.
we asked her how she got around and she told us presently in a motorhome,
but before that, in a van which was in Idaho and needed new owners -
if we wanted to go pick it up - we could have it.
this ended up being the vehicle that Rae labored in with Izaya
and he was born just outside in the wee morning hours on the edge of bus village and main circle
at the West Virginia National Rainbow gathering in Pocahontas county, July 5 2005.
several months later we were in a secure location and so we passed Bertha along
in a similar fashion to Julie who was going down to do Katrina relief.
"Honey"
Honey was our gas efficient replacement to Bertha
that lasted us a season before heading to her final resting place.
"Beloved"
this vehicle has made it around... several owners and many trips across the country -
a rebuilt engine and tranny and finally it has a resting place at the Church of Noise in Mississippi.