Getting Ready For Another Road Trip!

 We are getting ready to leave for another road trip soon.  We are headed back to Missouri for a family wedding.

Dad has been the president of our HOA board here at the condo for the past year.  His term is up on Sept 17th and he is not running for re-election.  It has been a very frustrating year and we better leave it at that. He has been counting down the days since January, so that should tell you something. 😁 

Mom's car is in the shop.  Two weeks ago, we went to McDonald's.  We haven't been to McDonalds in maybe a year.  On the way home from picking up a Big Mac, a Quarter Pounder with cheese and a basket of fries, the car acted like it couldn't get out of first gear.  Mom thought for sure that she would get points taken off of her Liberty Mutual RightTrack savings because of our hard shifting.  We made it home and then Dad decided to take the car out and it acted fine for him even though the engine light remained on.  He drove it for a while and then it shifted hard for him.  The folks took it into the shop and it took ten days for them to look at it and as feared, they had to order a part.  We had this same part replaced just two years ago.  The part is on back order and some people have had to wait five months for it.  We don't know when we will have our car back.  Mom has considered just selling it, but that is probably not the best option.  She has been driving the van to do her Walmart pick-ups.  She doesn't mind drivng it but she doesn't like backing up because there are no windows.  She has to use the mirrors and the cameras. She avoid backing up when possible but you have to back-up at a Walmart pick-up.  The van is very tall, so there are limits of where it can go, like no drive-thrus. At least we don't have to have a car since Mom doesn't work.  Can you imagine if you had to have a car and the parts take five months or more to get?

I still enjoy delivering packages and magazines to Mom.

I will try to blog some from the road.  

Jaxson,

The Greyhound Who Is Ready To Leave The Texas Heat Behind