Help Name the Vehicle

Mary Lou and I will be driving a 2000 Chevy Tahoe on our Mexico and South America  tours. This SUV, pictured below, was donated by my daughter and son-in-law (Daedra & Danny). Muchas gracias! The SUV has 178,000 miles on it but Danny has kept it in very good mechanical condition. I drove a 7800 mile lap around the US this past October with nary a hint of a problem. So, it’s off to Mexico with it. However, being 12 years old, it does have some visible wear and tear. Not the most beautiful vehicle on the road!

Here’s the dilemma! We’ve been following some other blogs written by people who are taking very similar journeys to the one we will be taking. It seems that there is a tradition of the vehicles having been given some cool names. Some of the names are Sprinter (Highly ironic since this couple is taking 2½ years to do the same trip that we’re doing in 6-7 months), Red Beard (a 1971 Volkswagen microbus) and some others.

Try as we might, neither Mary Lou nor I have been able to come up with a really cool name for our vehicle. I thought of “La Ruptura pato” or “El patito feo” but we are both very open to any other suggestions. So please use a little imagination, and help us name this beast. Your reward will be a hearty “thank you” and a drink the next time I see you! With inducement like that, I’m sure you’ll jump right on it.

Note: Several people have told me that there is some difficulty in posting comments to the blog. After looking at it, I agree that it is not really very clear.

What you need to do is to go to the bottom of the post where it lists the number of comments. Click on the comments number and the comments dialog box will come up. You can then type in your comment after which you will get some of those goofy looking anti-spam letters that you have to type in. 

Happy Trails,

Ken