This is what the big mud puddle looked like after we decided to finish for the day. Hopefully, no more tadpoles were hurt. We ran out of film, but right before we left, I put on a set of high boots and went out into the middle of the puddle and dug a trench to make a water connection between each rut, so that the tadpoles stuck on the far right side could get into the main body of water.


Here I am standing next to my remarkably dirty truck. I didn't wash the truck off, and drove it home later that day basically looking like that. A week or so later while I was refueling, a man came up to me and said "Now, that's what an International should look like!" All I can say is AMEN!!


My little Wienersnitzel weenie dog hanging on to my antenna for dear life. As the picture shows, he got muddy too. :) My dad has a near-professional camera setup; that's why he was able to zoom in with such great detail.


Here's the right-side mirror-mounted turn signal. The really cool thing here was that, even with the mud after it dried and caked itself on, the light emitted was almost identical to what the clean lens would produce. Very powerful lights. :)


This is the single exhaust pipe at it's outlet behind the driver's side rear wheel. The end has a slight turn-down, and it was actually completely free. Just had a lot of dirt on the outside.


As shown here, the rear wheel, tire, treads, and mudflap were liberally coated in mud. Most of this came free after 10 minutes of driving on the road, and by the time I had gotten home, there was no mud or dirt left in the tire treads whatsoever. You can also see some of the black duct tape I put on the quater panel above the wheel itself. This is mostly to keep the interior insulated.

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