Tru,
No, I don't have a turtle. I guess I should get some kind of mascot, but with no car it is hardly important. Maybe a Tasmanian Devil.
I can understand the dirt roads and mud. When I was young, 2000 years ago, I once had a flat on a dirt road. The darn jack just sunk into the mud and I spent half an hour putting small rocks under it and watching it push them down into the mud before I could lift the car wheel. And of course I had no gloves and the whole wheel was one huge glob of mud. Finally got enough off to find the lug nuts and got the spare on. After that, I carried a thick piece of wood in the trunk just in case.
Ron