Roofus develops some bad habits

So leaving Dallas at rush hour made our trip from there to Silver City New Mexico a solid 11 hour drive. This was made all the more ridiculous by our 6 PM to 5 AM time frame(seriously Herzog, Odessa?). We rolled into the campground and proceeded to sleep off the road-weary for a couple hours till the blazing New Mexican sun sweated us out of our sleep. Now every parent tells their child to "do as i say, not as I do". Unfortunately our baby bus Roofus chose the latter and picked up some of our bad habits. In addition to the aforementioned leaking of rainwater, during our fairly rough and curvy drive to the Gila Indian Caves, Roofus chose that moment to start smoking, heavily, from the engine. Not good. We put our engineering degrees to work, opened up the hood, hemmed and hawed until a passing motorist pointed out that we were bone dry on coolant. A trip to town, 30 bucks of coolant, 4 surplus army jackets, and a delicious meal with a delicious waitress later we were back on the road to the cliffs. Roofus then proceeded to start smoking again, this time from the wheels. Again, engineers to the rescue. We stopped the car, poured some water on it, and haven't been bothered since. After a short hike to the awesomely sweet Gila caves we showered up and tried to go out in Silver city. Two things impeded this. 1: trying to find anywhere that was open after 9 PM. This includes restaurants, bars, and foodstores. 2: every fucking idiot in a pick-up that drove by seemed to want to fight us, seriously, everyone. Now wanting to dirty our knuckles in a round of fisticuffs, we choose to head back to our campground and get shitfaced watching the stars.
The following day we set out to hike the nearby catwalk on our way to Scottsdale. What's the catwalk you say? We never found out. 4 Miles away from our destination Roofus proceeded dump gallons of neon-green coolant and again, start smoking from the engine. So inventory of Bus problems: leaks water in the rain, dashlights don't work so we can't read our speed at night, leaks coolant, can't fill up gas very fast or it spills from....somewhere. We weighed our options, decided against spending another night in Silver City, made a heroic drive to Arizona stopping every hour or so to refill coolant, and arrived just in time for Herzog's bday.