Gecko: The Search for Ethel the Explorer
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Owner:
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OleKim
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Released:
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
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Origin:
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Oklahoma, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In the hands of Big Cat Daddy.
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To take this key to caches across the United States searching for the Ford Explorer it fits ... kinda like trying to find the right girl to wear the glass slipper.
This trackable is a tribute to my first vehicle ... an orange 1976 Ford Explorer pickup that I bought it new when I was 17. It had a CB radio, 8-track and wagon wheels. Someone gave me an 8-track tape of Ray Stevens' greatest hits and we listened to it in the truck all the time. On the playlist was "The Streak" -- so I named my truck Ethel after the lady in the song. My CB handle was even "Explorer."
Alas, Ethel is gone, done in back in 1991 by a nursing student who was late for class on a rainy day. She thought it proper to turn an interstate exit ramp into the passing lane so she could get around a semi. The only problem was I was in Ethel ahead of the semi. She bumped me right into the retaining wall and just like that ... Ethel was gone.
I wish the girl all the best, but hope Geico isn't insuring her today.
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