Old Car and Bike rambling

March started off with a bang (well more accurately would be clang clang clang). My wife took the Kia to look for apartments with our daughter in the town where she will be working in a few more months.  While I was on a call with my mother at home explaining how the old Kia would be fine on our trip across the country to visit her in NY in a few weeks, I get a call from my wife about some strange sound the car was making. She was forced to pull over because the sound was just too unusual and didn't sound safe.  To make a long story short, the car was towed and the engine was declared toast.  Used engine replacements were offered at 5k or 6k installed depending on the miles on the donor engine.  We checked with the Kia dealership and they told us almost the same story. Used engine installed for 5k to 7.5k depending on the miles of the donor. There were no rebuilt engines available. We were more than 500 miles from home.  Without very many options, we decided to junk the car due