The Quilt (2004)
The Quilt
“Initially the road was just a single gravel lane cut through the forest, and then it turned into simple dirt, wide enough for one vehicle, with a ditch cut on each side and thick trees interspersed with small man-made clearings of forty to eighty acres.
Had it been raining, or winter, or spring, they would not have been able to travel at all; with mud or snow the track would have been completely impassable.
As it was, the highest speed the truck could maintain was ten miles an hour. Kristina's farm was only seven miles away. But age, wear on machinery and the poor quality of tractor fuel, which was little more than low-grade kerosene, all contributed to slow the truck to a measly four or five miles an hour—hardly more than walking speed. Indeed, on more than one occasion the boy and his grandmother got out and walked alongside the bouncing vehicle. Every quarter to half mile the engine would overheat and Elmer would have to stop the truck, let the engine cool down and get a bucket of ...water from the ditch to pour into the boiled-over radiator.MoreLess
Had it been raining, or winter, or spring, they would not have been able to travel at all; with mud or snow the track would have been completely impassable.
As it was, the highest speed the truck could maintain was ten miles an hour. Kristina's farm was only seven miles away. But age, wear on machinery and the poor quality of tractor fuel, which was little more than low-grade kerosene, all contributed to slow the truck to a measly four or five miles an hour—hardly more than walking speed. Indeed, on more than one occasion the boy and his grandmother got out and walked alongside the bouncing vehicle. Every quarter to half mile the engine would overheat and Elmer would have to stop the truck, let the engine cool down and get a bucket of ...water from the ditch to pour into the boiled-over radiator.MoreLess
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