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Crescent City California

     March 3, 2003

 It happened last Thursday. After we spent another week at a motel in
Crescent City, we called Dial a Ride, and the nice lady picked us up and we went and picked up the dogs at the vets where we had the boarded for the week and headed for our "fixed" Motor Home.
 We were so excited, we had our "family" back together and were actually going to be on our way to Southern CA....
 Well when we arrived, they discovered a leak in the radiator so they had to take it all apart again and fix that........they assured us it would be
done the next day. So we got a dial a ride and had to rent a pet friendly
motel. It was good tho it saved us 20.00 a day...wasn't bad......
 So that brought us up to Friday again, this time it was really done and wewere looking forward to going....well by the time the credit card people decided we had stolen our credit and debit cards and asked the Mechanic Shop to pull our cards, cause we don't spend that kind of money all the time. :)......and my call to the bank to get that straightened out, we were "outta there" just in time 4:45. ;) So we decided we'd go to our old camp spot one more time and stay the
night and get an early start in the morning...so we did, we cleaned the
motor home, we had to throw the food away out of the frig cause it was un hooked the whole time we were gone. So many things were messed up that we didn't even think about.
 So it was all clean and ready to go, we got up early for us 9:30 or so,
and stopped for breakfast, and we were on our way. ;) Well the drive was beautiful, right on the ocean, way high and then down low, all of a sudden Al yellped!!!!!........omg, something is wrong here, and the engine started "knocking" like it does when you get bad gas or something like that. So he said the heat went sky high and the oil pressure dropped and it's not  supposed to do that. ;) we had actually drove 41 miles........ Ok, great, brand new engine............jeezers. .  That little town we stopped in looked like
that little town in all those movies where the gas station guy comes out and kills you and uses you for fertilizer in his back yard. ;)
hehehehehehehe.......seriously, it really did, I don't know why I didn't
take a picture, I will try later. ;) Al called on the cell phone and the guy said, get a tow back here, it shouldn't have gotten that high and it would just damage it if we kept driving. ;) so we called our motor club and got towed back to the repair shop. By now it's 4:30 again (FRIDAY) AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! and so it was grab and
throw our stuff that we just got all put away to go to the pet motel. The
fellow that works there gave us a ride. Well we forgot half our stuff of
course, personal crap like tooth brushes, deoderant.......etc. Too numerous to mention....


 Now it's Monday,  and they have the motor out of the motor home, we really don't know yet if it was the motor or something wrong with the way they put it altogether or what. Depending on if they have to put another new motor in, it may take like 5 to 7 working days (AGAIN)........They really felt as bad as we did I know, they were so shocked they have been getting motors from these people for years of course. ;) .......lol........and why didn't that surprise us. ;) ????????......well I couldn't get dial a ride all day which is 1.00 so I finally had to call a taxi, and went out there and got my
pain pills, (20.00  I had run out yesterday, bad day, and a list with a
bunch of other stuff on it. ;) NO, we are NOT having fun yet. We are trying.
It's getting harder and harder to remain positive. :) Altho that's our only
choice here, no use crying over spilled milk, just hope they can get it
fixed right this time. ;) we want to go on our trip.
 So that about brings us up to date. ;) yikes what a time!!!!!
 And about 7:00 this evening, Al had a really, really bad attack, but
he's ok now just really tired, Gawd, they sure scare me. ;)