P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.
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pkondz
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What's this? A tease post? "Oh, look! Nebo's posted! Must be the start of the TR!".... Get to work mister. And no bathroom breaks 'til you're done....
Thumper_Man
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What if we someone rewrote the words, like me.
"Let's get this TR started" I’m logging on,
So you better, get this TR started
(Get this TR started)
I'm logging on
So you better get this TR started
Get this TR started on a Monday night
Everybody's waitin' for Nebo to write
Sendin' out the call outs to all of his friends
Waiting on Smidgy to chime right in.
Nebo trying to figure out his notes on his little note pad
He will type for hours ‘cause his 'puter just crashed.
I’m logging on,
So you better get this TR started
I'm logging on
So you better get this TR started
Telling us about Disney and all of their trip,
How Nebo fell down and nearly busted his hip.
Driving down the interstate with his only good eye
Smidgy praying that they’ll make it alive
Pull up to the World, get out of the car
Nebo says to Smidgy we’re here Superstar
I’m logging on,
So you better get this TR started
I'm logging on
So you better get this TR started
Going to Magic Kingdom, trying to sneak booze in
Oh NO don’t tell us that Smidgy got busted AGAIN.
Collecting fast passes throughout the whole day
So they can use them later while the crowds watch parades.
We’ll have lots laughs and post our comments
Everyone stick around until this TR ends
I’m logging on,
So you better get this TR started
I'm logging on
So you better get this TR started
So let’s get this TR started.
Thumper_Man
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It was 6 in the morning, Pinky and the Brain just finished loading up the Santa Fe to get ready to venture out yet again to WDW. "Gee Brain, what do you want to do today" Brain replies "same thing we do everyday day Pinky, try to take over the world." Blah, blah, blah, yadda yadda yadda. And T..................! Wait for it.
You can take it from here.
Thumper_Man
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Thumper Man, not anxious are you? Loved the rework of the song.
I'll just beg Nebo to type quickly and error-free.
Why thank-you. I tried. Its definitely no Pkondz, but its a work in progress.
No, not really in a hurry. Didn't have much to do in my last hour of work, so just decided to jump on the Dis. Don't want to get too far behind like I did last time. Hope to keep up better this TR.
Disney Geek
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Have no fear, the Canadian Geek is here!!!! Yes ladies and gentlemen, after months of being awol on the boards, I am back! 
And from what I see of Nebo's last post, I'm right on time!!! 
And from what I see of Nebo's last post, I'm right on time!!! 
nebo
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If you took all the cars in the world, and all the motorcycles and all the SUV's and all the pick-ups and mini-vans that are in the entire world and lined them all up front to back........
....you'd have Labor Day weekend!
At least that's what I thought it was going to be like, I'e traveled at this time before.
I couldn't be more wrong, at least this time. I guess the direction the car is aimed in has a lot to do with it,,,,
unlike most folks up here, this time our car is aiming in the opposite direction of Wisconsin, so traffic was no problem.
I really dreaded that, which is why I chose the "lonely highway" route through Illinois, nothing is more frustrating than trying to get to a vacation destination and you can't move in traffic jams.
I remember one time trying a different route,, route 75 coming down and hitting the worst road construction back up near Lexington,,,,,a Department of Transportation official finally came by and handed us fastpasses to come back and try again later.
But that would have been preferable to what we ran into.
Friday, Sept. 2
Departure was going to be at 6:15 sharp on Sunday morning, going to take our time getting down there this time, mainly because I'm expecting the drive to be much more exhausting having to deal with the eye issues now.
Or lack of eyes issues.
It can take a lot out of you, just like not having cruise control can also, so if I turn into a wuss and don't drive as far as we usually do, well, so be it, our new motto is a very loud, SAFETY FIRST: only Hugh can prevent running into forest friars!
As a matter of fact, in contrast I have overdone it this trip.
I once drove down there with really bad brakes a couple years ago, if I had gotten the new brakes then we wouldn't have been able to afford the trip.
So what if I went through three pairs of shoes from having to drag my left foot on the ground when we came to a stop light, worked for Fred Flintstone!
But not this time.
I started by bringing ini the car for a Santa Fe recall I had been putting off, something about the sway bars and underneath suspension possibly rusting out and it was all replaced for free.
Then they did the 27 point inspection and rplaced the differential seal and power steering return line. This was followed by Diane shaming me into buying all new tires for this car, was still riding on the originals.
Throw in the mandatory oil and filter change, new wipers, and a clean ash tray and I felt like I had pretty much done all I could. Nothing would have been worse than to have a blowout on the highway and both of us lying there dead and having Smidgy saying, "I told you we should have gotten new tires!"
So, it's friday night, and for some reason I decide to check Accuguesser to see what we might expect from nature.
Oh, how nice, there is this hurricane just now coming ashore in New Orleans names Lee.What kind of self respecting hurricane is named Lee? Could be worse though, Hurricane Harvey just fizzled out. Same with Jose. Not only that, but Katia is sitting off the the East bothering Bermuda, (serves them right for the shorts), and Marie ande Nate are lining up to take their shots.
But back to Lee. It's not the baddest one by normal standards, but the remarkable thing about it is that it's only moving about 3 miles per hour, so it is releasing an incredible amount of rain over the land it covers.
And it covers an incredible amount of land, this storm is 500 miles wide!
Oh, and look, it's moving N/NE, we will be on a direct collision course with it in Tennessee and Georgia.
I thought of maybe, possible moving departure up a day, but we have Kaylee's birthday tomorrow, no way that is going to fly with the family to miss that for another Disney trip. Uh uh,,,,, no way, no how.
Saturday dragged by for me at the party, I couldn't help it, and I kept looking at my watch for some reason.
We were all packed up sarurday night except for the cooler, and Diane made sure to get up a little early Sunday to take care of that, (snarky comment alert), that way by getting up early she had enough time to make sure to forget to put in the cooler the TWO things I was looking forward to the most that we were going to make in our studios,,,, Johnsonville Beddar with Cheddar and Polska Kielbasa.
Fully loaded, it was just starting to get light out and the news called for partly cloudy through out most of Illinois, so at least I wasn't going to have to worry about the rain today.
Our pre "put the car in gear" prayer was a tad longer this morning, then I dropped the lever down into "D" for "Do It!" and, "ANNNNNNNNND, WE"RE OFF!"
3 blocks away Diane says she decided to bring her light jacket after all which was followed by me yelling,,,,,
"ANNNNNNND, WE'RE TURNING AROUND!"
I had forgotten my jacket.
And my hat.
As she ran in to grab them for me, I once again did a quick check through my bathroom bag, all meds are definately in order, I still shudder thinking about the last time driving down when 165 miles into the drive I had to turn around because I forgot the bag and all my worldly possessions that were ensconced inside.
The door opened and closed again and this time I yelled out, "No, I didn't forget the bathroom bag this time."
Then I started naming some things to her to make sure we had them as I pulled away again, but she wasn't answering.
Well, maybe she would have if she heard me, but she was coming out of the house now for the third time,,, before, she came out and opened the door just to close it again and run back in.
This struck me as pretty funny,,,,, I almost forgot Smidgy!
Once again we left, and this time we really meant it.
Let me jump ahead right now and tell you, if you think we had a nice, boring trip down, let me put a stop to that right away. If you think that maybe we had the "Drive down to Florida from Hell", you would be just a little bit closer.
The first thing I noticed was that the car seemed to be pulling a bit to the right, oh probably cuz there's more weight now on that side with the heavy cooler over there, plus the road is slanted that way, yeah, sure I'm just imagining it.
After all, we've got 4 brand spanking new tires on the baby, what could be wrong?
And I even went around and checked all the tires myself yesterday, just to make sure the worker put the right amount of air in each one.
To the highway we go!
For those in the area, Tracy, Kim, Kathy, we tried a different early route this time.
Normallly it's the Tri state South (294) to route 80, then we decide if we want the eastern way through Indiana or the Western Way through Coronado Springs. I mean Illinois.
But today we took 53 to 355, and that dead ends now at 80 since they finished it. Then we took 80 east to 57 and came down through all of Illini nation. 355 is a much more pleasant road than 294, but it is a bit curvy.
Since the weatherman is calling for partly sunny skies, when we got to 57 it started to rain lightly.
This is what I refer to now as the Birth of the Beast!
The entire drive down and back is the "Beast", this was just the beginning of things that started going wrong, however mundane that it was.
So, once again, there you have the title:
P.O.T.C,,,,,, Paying off the Cards
On Stranger Rides,,,,,starting already
Chaper 1 Birth of the Beast
Speaking of POTC, one of my favorite movie lines is from Jurassic Park when the owner, John Hammond compares his park to Disneyland, and I think it's Jeff Goldblum that replies, "But John, if Pirates breaks down the Pirates don't eat the tourists!"
And on we go.
We never hit a rest stop this time, I kept thinkinig I could outrun the rain but it kept starting and stopping the entire length of road.
You see, moods are big with me.
There is nothing better on the planet than to just be starting an epic trip to your favorite vacation spot in the world early in the morning,,, with the birds chirping, the wind blowing past the closed windows, the sun just peeking over the horizon on my left, Diane snoring into her pillow next to me.
This is all important to me but no, not today, I've got gloom and doom outside the windows with the wipers going on internmittent.
When the odometer said it was at 320, it was time for gas, I can never trust that little gas pump light on the dash, it always comes on when you get low enough, the only problem is that IT decides what the definition of "low enough" is.
So far, Sunday labor Day traffic has been nothing,,, even the road construction has been put on hold this weekend everywhere.
With only about 30 miles left before we had to switch to rt. 24 I got off to go and fill and drain, fill the car's tank, drain our tanks.
It's already way after noon, and I'm way behind schedule because of the rain.
After taking care of business we saw there is a Mcdonald's connected to the gas station so I told Smidgy to grab me a plain burger and the cheapest fry to eat on the way, get what you want for yourself. I knew I shouldn't but Hugh wasn't there to prevent me from getting the poorest fries.
Back at the car waiting for Smidgy it was like a revelation hit me!
Oh yeah, I wanted to check the tires!
And I did the walk around.
Is 75% good enough?
I got to the right front tire and even I could tell it was way, way too low. And this has been something I have never been good at, guaging tire pressure just by looking at them.
I got my tire guage out and unscrewed the cap and checked it....
Holy Smokes,,,,,, only 12 pounds! Supposed to be 32 .
Now, you have to understand something with us,
We not only don't need any complications, we can't handle any either.
Not this trip!
So far every half hour on the clock means I'm supposed to be lighting another cigarrette up, that's what I used to do,,, two an hour,,, on the half hour. Her triggers for smoking aren't usually at this time of day, but for me so far it's been brutal,,, all I've been thinking about.
As I'm standing at the car staring down at the tire wondering what I'm going to do, I'm for some reason, suspecting the valve stem. Then Smidgy came out with our burgers and saw the low tire herself without me saying a word. Then she paused and bent over and said the strang3est thing:
"It's hissing!"
My hearing aids are picking up all the highway traffic below, but she can hear the valve hissing.
I licked the back of my hand, then put it down in front of the valve and I could feel it.
Wow, if it had been like this, no way could we have made it this far, it has to be from me using the tire guage that sometimes makes the valve stick, and not fully rlease to where it's completely closed.
Oh, and I checked the tires two days ago with the gauge, that must have been when it didn't close all the way and slowly leaked for a while till we left, but now it's coming out gangbusters.
She runs back inside and finds out where an air hose is,,,
of course it takes lots of quarters, but a U-Haul trailer is parked in front, blocking it from us.
As I was rigging up the detonator to blow the trailer a guy came out and moved it, then I pulled up ;and started pumping in the quarters and filled it up.
When I stopped, I asked the bionic ears lady if she could hear leakage,,,,, "Yep".
We repeated this exercise until one time I had enough air in the tire, and she said she can't hear any leaking.
I tried the wet hand trick again, but it was hard to tell since it now has decided to start doing a little more than just drizzling out.
For the first time today, I honestly didn't know what to do.
It's Labor Day weekend and a Sunday at that, but there's now shops around here anyway, this is a one gas station/Macdonalds town.
I have changed many a flat tire in my life, got pretty quick at it since all my first cars were lucky if they weren't all riding on the cork, but I've never done it with the Santa Fe, never needed to.
Plus, the spare is under the car, you have to crank it down from somewhere in the back, never done it, not sure how it really works.
And, the big AND,,,,,,, how far can I get on a donut? Plus, you aren't supposed to go more than 50 miles an hour on one of those things, it's just to get you to the nearest service station in the nearest hick town so they can tell you to empty your wallet and we'll take it from there!
We got back in when the rain got harder, and I made the decision,,,, hopefully, the valve is now closed, our problems are behind us and I'll just have to keep an eye on that tire.
Damn, I'm so glad I got all new TIRES! Should have left the old ones on.
AAhhhhhhh,,,,, that's why it was pulling to the right,, oh well, at least we caught it in time, no damage, everything is ok, all behind us now. And on we go on route 24 into Paducah and Kentucky, I even finally put in one of my home made cd's, hey, I can pretend there's no problems.
We're singing along, "I like Dreamin', cuz dreamin can make you mine".
Nope, the tire's ok, what's a little rain, got a full tank now, on our way to Disney!
What else could go wrong?
....you'd have Labor Day weekend!
At least that's what I thought it was going to be like, I'e traveled at this time before.
I couldn't be more wrong, at least this time. I guess the direction the car is aimed in has a lot to do with it,,,,
unlike most folks up here, this time our car is aiming in the opposite direction of Wisconsin, so traffic was no problem.
I really dreaded that, which is why I chose the "lonely highway" route through Illinois, nothing is more frustrating than trying to get to a vacation destination and you can't move in traffic jams.
I remember one time trying a different route,, route 75 coming down and hitting the worst road construction back up near Lexington,,,,,a Department of Transportation official finally came by and handed us fastpasses to come back and try again later.
But that would have been preferable to what we ran into.
Friday, Sept. 2
Departure was going to be at 6:15 sharp on Sunday morning, going to take our time getting down there this time, mainly because I'm expecting the drive to be much more exhausting having to deal with the eye issues now.
Or lack of eyes issues.
It can take a lot out of you, just like not having cruise control can also, so if I turn into a wuss and don't drive as far as we usually do, well, so be it, our new motto is a very loud, SAFETY FIRST: only Hugh can prevent running into forest friars!
As a matter of fact, in contrast I have overdone it this trip.
I once drove down there with really bad brakes a couple years ago, if I had gotten the new brakes then we wouldn't have been able to afford the trip.
So what if I went through three pairs of shoes from having to drag my left foot on the ground when we came to a stop light, worked for Fred Flintstone!
But not this time.
I started by bringing ini the car for a Santa Fe recall I had been putting off, something about the sway bars and underneath suspension possibly rusting out and it was all replaced for free.
Then they did the 27 point inspection and rplaced the differential seal and power steering return line. This was followed by Diane shaming me into buying all new tires for this car, was still riding on the originals.
Throw in the mandatory oil and filter change, new wipers, and a clean ash tray and I felt like I had pretty much done all I could. Nothing would have been worse than to have a blowout on the highway and both of us lying there dead and having Smidgy saying, "I told you we should have gotten new tires!"
So, it's friday night, and for some reason I decide to check Accuguesser to see what we might expect from nature.
Oh, how nice, there is this hurricane just now coming ashore in New Orleans names Lee.What kind of self respecting hurricane is named Lee? Could be worse though, Hurricane Harvey just fizzled out. Same with Jose. Not only that, but Katia is sitting off the the East bothering Bermuda, (serves them right for the shorts), and Marie ande Nate are lining up to take their shots.
But back to Lee. It's not the baddest one by normal standards, but the remarkable thing about it is that it's only moving about 3 miles per hour, so it is releasing an incredible amount of rain over the land it covers.
And it covers an incredible amount of land, this storm is 500 miles wide!
Oh, and look, it's moving N/NE, we will be on a direct collision course with it in Tennessee and Georgia.
I thought of maybe, possible moving departure up a day, but we have Kaylee's birthday tomorrow, no way that is going to fly with the family to miss that for another Disney trip. Uh uh,,,,, no way, no how.
Saturday dragged by for me at the party, I couldn't help it, and I kept looking at my watch for some reason.
We were all packed up sarurday night except for the cooler, and Diane made sure to get up a little early Sunday to take care of that, (snarky comment alert), that way by getting up early she had enough time to make sure to forget to put in the cooler the TWO things I was looking forward to the most that we were going to make in our studios,,,, Johnsonville Beddar with Cheddar and Polska Kielbasa.
Fully loaded, it was just starting to get light out and the news called for partly cloudy through out most of Illinois, so at least I wasn't going to have to worry about the rain today.
Our pre "put the car in gear" prayer was a tad longer this morning, then I dropped the lever down into "D" for "Do It!" and, "ANNNNNNNNND, WE"RE OFF!"
3 blocks away Diane says she decided to bring her light jacket after all which was followed by me yelling,,,,,
"ANNNNNNND, WE'RE TURNING AROUND!"
I had forgotten my jacket.
And my hat.
As she ran in to grab them for me, I once again did a quick check through my bathroom bag, all meds are definately in order, I still shudder thinking about the last time driving down when 165 miles into the drive I had to turn around because I forgot the bag and all my worldly possessions that were ensconced inside.
The door opened and closed again and this time I yelled out, "No, I didn't forget the bathroom bag this time."
Then I started naming some things to her to make sure we had them as I pulled away again, but she wasn't answering.
Well, maybe she would have if she heard me, but she was coming out of the house now for the third time,,, before, she came out and opened the door just to close it again and run back in.
This struck me as pretty funny,,,,, I almost forgot Smidgy!
Once again we left, and this time we really meant it.
Let me jump ahead right now and tell you, if you think we had a nice, boring trip down, let me put a stop to that right away. If you think that maybe we had the "Drive down to Florida from Hell", you would be just a little bit closer.
The first thing I noticed was that the car seemed to be pulling a bit to the right, oh probably cuz there's more weight now on that side with the heavy cooler over there, plus the road is slanted that way, yeah, sure I'm just imagining it.
After all, we've got 4 brand spanking new tires on the baby, what could be wrong?
And I even went around and checked all the tires myself yesterday, just to make sure the worker put the right amount of air in each one.
To the highway we go!
For those in the area, Tracy, Kim, Kathy, we tried a different early route this time.
Normallly it's the Tri state South (294) to route 80, then we decide if we want the eastern way through Indiana or the Western Way through Coronado Springs. I mean Illinois.
But today we took 53 to 355, and that dead ends now at 80 since they finished it. Then we took 80 east to 57 and came down through all of Illini nation. 355 is a much more pleasant road than 294, but it is a bit curvy.
Since the weatherman is calling for partly sunny skies, when we got to 57 it started to rain lightly.
This is what I refer to now as the Birth of the Beast!
The entire drive down and back is the "Beast", this was just the beginning of things that started going wrong, however mundane that it was.
So, once again, there you have the title:
P.O.T.C,,,,,, Paying off the Cards
On Stranger Rides,,,,,starting already
Chaper 1 Birth of the Beast
Speaking of POTC, one of my favorite movie lines is from Jurassic Park when the owner, John Hammond compares his park to Disneyland, and I think it's Jeff Goldblum that replies, "But John, if Pirates breaks down the Pirates don't eat the tourists!"
And on we go.
We never hit a rest stop this time, I kept thinkinig I could outrun the rain but it kept starting and stopping the entire length of road.
You see, moods are big with me.
There is nothing better on the planet than to just be starting an epic trip to your favorite vacation spot in the world early in the morning,,, with the birds chirping, the wind blowing past the closed windows, the sun just peeking over the horizon on my left, Diane snoring into her pillow next to me.
This is all important to me but no, not today, I've got gloom and doom outside the windows with the wipers going on internmittent.
When the odometer said it was at 320, it was time for gas, I can never trust that little gas pump light on the dash, it always comes on when you get low enough, the only problem is that IT decides what the definition of "low enough" is.
So far, Sunday labor Day traffic has been nothing,,, even the road construction has been put on hold this weekend everywhere.
With only about 30 miles left before we had to switch to rt. 24 I got off to go and fill and drain, fill the car's tank, drain our tanks.
It's already way after noon, and I'm way behind schedule because of the rain.
After taking care of business we saw there is a Mcdonald's connected to the gas station so I told Smidgy to grab me a plain burger and the cheapest fry to eat on the way, get what you want for yourself. I knew I shouldn't but Hugh wasn't there to prevent me from getting the poorest fries.
Back at the car waiting for Smidgy it was like a revelation hit me!
Oh yeah, I wanted to check the tires!
And I did the walk around.
Is 75% good enough?
I got to the right front tire and even I could tell it was way, way too low. And this has been something I have never been good at, guaging tire pressure just by looking at them.
I got my tire guage out and unscrewed the cap and checked it....
Holy Smokes,,,,,, only 12 pounds! Supposed to be 32 .
Now, you have to understand something with us,
We not only don't need any complications, we can't handle any either.
Not this trip!
So far every half hour on the clock means I'm supposed to be lighting another cigarrette up, that's what I used to do,,, two an hour,,, on the half hour. Her triggers for smoking aren't usually at this time of day, but for me so far it's been brutal,,, all I've been thinking about.
As I'm standing at the car staring down at the tire wondering what I'm going to do, I'm for some reason, suspecting the valve stem. Then Smidgy came out with our burgers and saw the low tire herself without me saying a word. Then she paused and bent over and said the strang3est thing:
"It's hissing!"
My hearing aids are picking up all the highway traffic below, but she can hear the valve hissing.
I licked the back of my hand, then put it down in front of the valve and I could feel it.
Wow, if it had been like this, no way could we have made it this far, it has to be from me using the tire guage that sometimes makes the valve stick, and not fully rlease to where it's completely closed.
Oh, and I checked the tires two days ago with the gauge, that must have been when it didn't close all the way and slowly leaked for a while till we left, but now it's coming out gangbusters.
She runs back inside and finds out where an air hose is,,,
of course it takes lots of quarters, but a U-Haul trailer is parked in front, blocking it from us.
As I was rigging up the detonator to blow the trailer a guy came out and moved it, then I pulled up ;and started pumping in the quarters and filled it up.
When I stopped, I asked the bionic ears lady if she could hear leakage,,,,, "Yep".
We repeated this exercise until one time I had enough air in the tire, and she said she can't hear any leaking.
I tried the wet hand trick again, but it was hard to tell since it now has decided to start doing a little more than just drizzling out.
For the first time today, I honestly didn't know what to do.
It's Labor Day weekend and a Sunday at that, but there's now shops around here anyway, this is a one gas station/Macdonalds town.
I have changed many a flat tire in my life, got pretty quick at it since all my first cars were lucky if they weren't all riding on the cork, but I've never done it with the Santa Fe, never needed to.
Plus, the spare is under the car, you have to crank it down from somewhere in the back, never done it, not sure how it really works.
And, the big AND,,,,,,, how far can I get on a donut? Plus, you aren't supposed to go more than 50 miles an hour on one of those things, it's just to get you to the nearest service station in the nearest hick town so they can tell you to empty your wallet and we'll take it from there!
We got back in when the rain got harder, and I made the decision,,,, hopefully, the valve is now closed, our problems are behind us and I'll just have to keep an eye on that tire.
Damn, I'm so glad I got all new TIRES! Should have left the old ones on.
AAhhhhhhh,,,,, that's why it was pulling to the right,, oh well, at least we caught it in time, no damage, everything is ok, all behind us now. And on we go on route 24 into Paducah and Kentucky, I even finally put in one of my home made cd's, hey, I can pretend there's no problems.
We're singing along, "I like Dreamin', cuz dreamin can make you mine".
Nope, the tire's ok, what's a little rain, got a full tank now, on our way to Disney!
What else could go wrong?
mmeb144
I do my own theme song.
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2000
You are scaring me with the tire story. We were driving down to Atlanta last year to visit my sister and one of our tires blew, near Bowling Green, KY. So, there I am on the left shoulder of the interstate, with all that traffic whizzing by. Thank God for the emergency roadside assistance from the insurance company. A state trooper even came by to check on us. Good times.
Echo queen
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- Joined
- Feb 18, 2005
Enjoying your report, tracking you on the map we will be driving home for Christmas Rockford Illinois. We have not driven in many years so I'm looking forward to a road trip. Seeing as it is still 100 degree weather here I am looking forward to some snow and ice
Oh I would still be yelling at my dh once we dead on the highway to.
Oh I would still be yelling at my dh once we dead on the highway to.
IheartDDuck
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2009
Oh no. You tire story was definitely making me nervous. I'm hoping that it ends well.....
Backstage_Gal
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- Joined
- Apr 8, 2005
Oh no, not off to a great start.
The trip that is, not your report, enjoying your adventures as always.
Hope it gets better
Marita
The trip that is, not your report, enjoying your adventures as always.
Hope it gets better
Marita
pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2007
Ah, HA! <evil grin and rubs hands together>
Uh, oh....
Okay, I can see that... umm.... was that insensitive of me?
Hey! Nebo actually reads the crap I post! Who knew?
Not to contradict you (I would never do that). But ol' Fred never wore shoes. Real men brake with bare feet.
True. There's nothing worse than being dead and being nagged at the same time. ummm... Smidgy's not gonna read this, right?
Lee? Harvey? What, no Oswald? Wouldn't that be a trifecta of hurricanes?
No way! (Sorry, it is physically impossible for me to say Jose (no way!) without saying :no way!" Although it's usually, "No way, Jose".
Ooohh, Smidgy.... How could you? Hasn't the poor man suffered enough?... Then again, you have to live with him so I guess it's a wash.
Wait! Wait! And you believed the forecast????
Yay!
Could've been worse.... 165 miles worse. So all in all, I'd say 3 blocks was an improvement.
I wonder if you'd just left, how many miles before you turned around because you forgot her!
Again... Uh, oh.
Great line, surprised it doesn't get quoted more often around the DIS.
Okay, now you're just getting silly, buddy.
I'm guessing that Nebo has a photographic memory that was never developed. Could be wrong.
Yikes!
Hope you managed to hang on. Didn't realise it would be that hard for ya.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Smidgy, known to the rest of the world as Lindsay Wagner...
Ya know, sometimes the old "Ignore it and it will go away." adage doesn't work out so good. Great update! Can't wait to see what happens next in the amazing adventures of Nebo and Smidgy.
Uh, oh....
Okay, I can see that... umm.... was that insensitive of me?
Hey! Nebo actually reads the crap I post! Who knew?
Not to contradict you (I would never do that). But ol' Fred never wore shoes. Real men brake with bare feet.
True. There's nothing worse than being dead and being nagged at the same time. ummm... Smidgy's not gonna read this, right?
Lee? Harvey? What, no Oswald? Wouldn't that be a trifecta of hurricanes?
No way! (Sorry, it is physically impossible for me to say Jose (no way!) without saying :no way!" Although it's usually, "No way, Jose".
Ooohh, Smidgy.... How could you? Hasn't the poor man suffered enough?... Then again, you have to live with him so I guess it's a wash.
Wait! Wait! And you believed the forecast????
Yay!
Could've been worse.... 165 miles worse. So all in all, I'd say 3 blocks was an improvement.
I wonder if you'd just left, how many miles before you turned around because you forgot her! Again... Uh, oh.
Great line, surprised it doesn't get quoted more often around the DIS.
Okay, now you're just getting silly, buddy.
I'm guessing that Nebo has a photographic memory that was never developed. Could be wrong.
Yikes!
Hope you managed to hang on. Didn't realise it would be that hard for ya.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Smidgy, known to the rest of the world as Lindsay Wagner...
Nope, the tire's ok, what's a little rain, got a full tank now, on our way to Disney!
What else could go wrong?
Ya know, sometimes the old "Ignore it and it will go away." adage doesn't work out so good. Great update! Can't wait to see what happens next in the amazing adventures of Nebo and Smidgy.
fsmith2845
Dis Dad's Club Member #119
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2007
I certainly feel your pain having to drive down the highway in the rain.. had a meeting in DC around that same time (remnants of TS Lee and a stalled coldfront) and had to drive back down I95 and from Fredricksburg to Richmond, it was an absolute downpour every single mile (oh yeah, it was at night as well). After checking the smartphone and checking out the radar, it seemed that a front had settled north to south RIGHT over I95.. and radar showed reds, not the gentle rain greens. lol (oh and it was moving almost due north on I95 Made that 1 hour trip take forever..
Made it home in one piece and the Avalanche got a great power wash.. it was nice and shiny the next day.. and no bugs in the grill!!
can't wait for more on the continuing drama from the beastly trip!!
Made it home in one piece and the Avalanche got a great power wash.. it was nice and shiny the next day.. and no bugs in the grill!!
can't wait for more on the continuing drama from the beastly trip!!
Seriously, no laughter tears tonight for me! Just a sense of horror over the tire situation. Dear heaven, car issues invoke a terror in me! I am not one of those women who can handle car issues, DH takes care of that for me, yet another one of the million reasons he is a keeper!
I have an impending sense of doom about the next leg of the trip. Cue the old style voiceover..."Will our dashing and fearless hero and our lovely auditory ace heroine make it to Disney in one piece?" "Will they survive the torrential storm Lee?" "Will the Santa Fe, aka Little Blue Engine that could, make it past the tire fiasco to triumph yet again?" Tune in next time to find out!
I would wink, but I'm a little nervous about the next leg. I would say I will breathe a sigh of relief once you drive under the WDW signs, but this is you we are talking about. The reality is that I won't be able to breathe a sigh of relief until the TR is over.
Way to hook me Nebo!
I have an impending sense of doom about the next leg of the trip. Cue the old style voiceover..."Will our dashing and fearless hero and our lovely auditory ace heroine make it to Disney in one piece?" "Will they survive the torrential storm Lee?" "Will the Santa Fe, aka Little Blue Engine that could, make it past the tire fiasco to triumph yet again?" Tune in next time to find out!
I would wink, but I'm a little nervous about the next leg. I would say I will breathe a sigh of relief once you drive under the WDW signs, but this is you we are talking about. The reality is that I won't be able to breathe a sigh of relief until the TR is over.
Way to hook me Nebo!
lovebuzzandwoody
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 4, 2007
Dun, dun, duuuuuunnnnnnnn!! Cliffhanger in classic Nebo style! I LOVE IT!!!
*only cuz I know you are okay!
*only cuz I know you are okay!
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