Vacation!

Saturday, March 15, our family headed to Florida for vacation. My posts for the next 2 weeks will be coming from warm, sunny, Jupiter, Florida.

We headed out around 1:00 p.m. and planned to drive straight thru to Jupiter. Our vacation started with a bang. About 3 hours into our trip I heard a funny noise coming from the car - of course my husband thinks I hear things with the car all the time, until he noticed a reading stating battery loosing power. Then he started loosing the power steering. We were going to pull off for gas and were close to a town - we got off just in time and pulled into a parking lot as the car coolant was gurgling, and smoke was coming from underneath the hood.
I called AAA right away for a tow truck - it was late Saturday afternoon and we knew our chances of getting the car fixed before Monday were slim. My first problem was trying to tell the AAA representative where we were. My husband walked around the parking lot to ask someone what city we were in.
We had a wonderful tow truck driver and he recommended we be towed to the Firestone Center because they stayed open later on a Saturday. He was so kind to recommend hotels for the night - He knew our chances of getting back on the road Saturday night were slim.

Until later.
BAS