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It's spring break this week, and seeing as there are lots of things planned, I figured I'd jot down the main points each day.

Today I finally got a haircut.

Me with longer hair, before my haircut.
Before.
Me sitting in the Jeep after the haircut.
After.

On the way out, I noticed a red Willys parked next to me.

Newer Jeep Willys parked next to my CJ-7 at the barber shop.
Jeep sighting.

We had a big adventure planned, pick up Ángel from Milwaukee, and I hoped to take the CJ-7. I've been trying to figure out the ignition, and narrowed it down to the ignition switch, so I picked it up from the parts store and installed it. In typical fashion, it wasn't the problem and didn't solve anything... tomorrow I'll actually break out the continuity tester that I should have done almost a year ago and track down the culprit, but right now, I didn't have the time. We took off as it was with a very janky bypass wire for the ignition coil and my friend in his Miata as a backup car.

We kept off the interstate, so the drive took forty minutes longer than normal, but we did make it, albiet with a singed connector.

Jeep CJ-7 and Mazda MX-5 in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Made it to Milwaukee.

Overall, it went really well. If I fix the ignition wire, I'd be pretty comfortable going long distances.

We stopped for lunch at Café Hollander north of downtown and started the long drive back. After a few close encounters with traffic, we made it out of the city limits and cruised back home.

Tired, we hung out for bit before starting up the movie "Bullitt."

Movie cover for the 1968 action/crime movie 'Bullitt'.
Bullitt.

Tomorrow, we're going to try and swap some suspension components on my dad's truck, so I can actually have something to drive back to Detroit. We'll see how it goes.

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