Un-Expected Pit-Stop

Headin' home today, driving through Farmington, New Mexico I got that dreaded surprise that anyone who drives a long distance hopes they don't get.....my transmission went out! Fortunately it still worked well enough to drive in first gear, so I made it to a McDonalds to use the free internet to see if I could find out what I could do. I started to get nervous as the only options I could come up with involved nearly $3,000 and a one week stay in Farmington. I got ahold of someone who sells salvaged transmissions and he happened to have a Saturn. And he referred me to someone who can install it in (hopefully) less than two days. All for less than a thou. Phewh! So knock on wood hopefully they don't give me a lemmon! In a way, this is actually a little bit of a blessing in disguise. We have always known our transmission was fishy (it has been for the last few years), so we were always a little nervous it would go out on us at a bad time. Well it went out on me in Farmington which is a fairly big town. And Heather and Elise are comfortably at home in Missouri. I will be able to use the day or two in the hotel to get stuff done that I need to do anyways. And we get out tranny replaced for a decent price. So all in all that went pretty well. Perhaps the biggest cost I will feel is the extra two days until I get to see Heather and Elise again!

So why don't I put up the token "Elise picture" to cheer this post up:

Elise looking pretty studious in the hotel the other day.