US Travels for December 19, 2011

US Travels

It was the Red-eye out of Honolulu to Chicago for the first leg then a
short flight to St Louis, Missouri. Waiting there where the friendly
folks that had stored the Goat mobile on their gentleman farm over the
past 3 months. Leaving the airport we have the husband driving with 2
women, major babbling brooks here, husband misses the turnoff, so we
do a quick tour of St Louis before heading in the right direction.

Down the road it is where women number 2 has parked her truck the night before.
Arriving we find the truck missing but what we do find is 10 signs
telling us that any vehicle left in this particular lot will be towed,
$80.00 later she is a happy camper.

At the farm of sorts the Goatmobile is readied for the trip north the
next day to pickup a new camper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Before leaving
I have No. 1 wife asking me if I am superstitious in any way or form
and this questioning goes on for the next 10 minutes without a clue as
to what she is talking about.

WELL it seems that the black cat, which I had asked about earlier, had
crawled up inside the engine to sleep. Husband had gone out and
started up the truck, the next thing he heard was a loud thump, then
smaller thumps. Shutting off the truck he opens the hood and we find
the black cat well wrapped around the fan belt, dead of course.
Needless to say it was not a very pleasant job pulling the bits and
pieces out of the fan. How the cat could even stay there under the
hood when I had placed containers of mothballs all through the engine
block is beyond me.

Away at 0230hrs the next morning for a 5 hour drive north to pickup
the camper it was. Of course 3 hours into the drive we have a flat
tyre but fortunately for me it was right after getting gas and I had
moved the truck forward to the convenient store for a proper cuppa of
mom's favorite coffee. Later on I called the wife of the gentleman
farmer and the first words out her mouth was, "it's the black cat
curse"………..

Well the new camper is on the back of the truck, its comes with
everything imaginable and more. It even has a toilet and shower in the
same stall.
To me this space will not be used at all so we find me dirty clothes
bag, paper towels, cans of food and 10 boxes of red wine, and a very
much more functional use of critical space.

The Greynomad