Back In Action

It's been a few weeks since my last post but there hasn't been a slow moment since Labor Day.

The Artist and I flew to St. Louis on Labor Day.  Our airport shuttle arrived at 4am so we were up and moving at 3am.  The first thing I felt after I got out of bed was an earthquake centered in Beverly Hills.  I like to think of it as California's way of making sure we wouldn't forget it while we were out of town.

We landed in St. Louis at noon and were packing our belongings by 2pm.  Why did we fly to Missouri to get out stuff?

Dana accepted a job in Los Angeles so we went to St. Louis to help with the move and ride with her to California.  The trip also involved a visit to the dentist to get the rest of Zach's "trays" for his invisible braces, time with his friends, making sure the car was ready for the road trip, packing the moving truck and Dana wrapping up her job at KEZK.

I tried my best to have lunch with some friends but time was not on my side with everything else I had to accomplish before we left town.

We left Thursday morning at 5am and headed for California.  Dana, Zach and the dog were asleep within an hour as I rolled through Missouri.  We hit Kansas around 10am and were stuck driving the entire state for the rest of the afternoon.

It didn't matter if we were in the middle of nowhere or in an urban area....All of Kansas smells like a herd of cows took care of their business in the last hour.

We decided to spend the night in Denver so we found a hotel and unloaded our suitcases.  It was around 8pm and we were starving.  We got back in the car and NOTHING HAPPENED!  The battery was dead.

Yes, it sucked the car battery died.  But, on the plus side:

***It died in the hotel parking lot and not in the middle of Colorado or (shudder) Kansas.
***We have 24-hour car service so they came out to jump the battery.
***I got a good local pizza delivered to the hotel.

The car service company arrived at 10pm.  They jumped the battery and started instantly!  They also charged me ZERO dollars and ZERO cents for the call.

After 20 minutes of running the battery, I turned off the car and attempted to start it one more time.  It turned on with no problem so we went to bed to get ready to hit the road around 5am.

I woke up the next morning at 4am and decided to load the car.  I went out to the vehicle and hit the button to open the car doors.

Nothing happened.

I tried it one more time....AND...Nothing happened.

The battery was dead again.

I've rambled on for awhile so what do you say we make Day 2 of the road trip story (and the saga of the dead battery) a post for another time?

TO BE CONTINUED