the electricity went out in the middle of the night, so no cool refreshing morning in the darkness I mentioned earlier

but…I was out of the heat wave and we flew along

100
200
then gas…and impressing the local mechanics who walked over to check little champ out and then, thank god (for ego’s sake) I got up the hill and around the corner out of sight when the car shit the bed again on a really busy highway.

I tried this, I tried that, this driver’s ed guy pulled (with his student in a panic) to offer to help..all and I said “yes, if you can tell me how high we are” and he said was “I do Fiats, isn’t that a Solex?” and we were off. Somehow he managed to ditch his student and came back and we both looked at the car and scratched our heads and admitted we had no idea what was going on.

Next thing I know…all my shit is once again on the side of the road…we are trying this and trying that and shooting the bull about the damn solex and alitude,

we try that and we try this
we try this and we try that

and I unpack even more

in the meantime the Mad Kitten is hopping around madly, hissing at him and freaking out, so every third word I am turning around and plucking her off the highway and tossing her back in the car..

and then…he holds up the gas line and I go “oh no, I know what the problem is now.” and run around to the driver’s side and look and see where the mad kitten unplug the fuel pump just enough when we stopped and she was hopping about that the car wouldn’t go.

Repack. He says he’ll follow me to the highway and I gun the engine and go to take off and the car drags like its got bricks tied to it and I look in my mirror and see him killing himself laughing and I realize I left the chock in place. Jump out, move it (good to know that those little plastic things work) hop back in, hop back in and go around to the passenger door and open it to make sure MK is there, almost close the door on her, now she is hissing at me, jump in and race away.

God…no really, I don’t some strange fetish about piling all my belongings on the side of the highway.

So maybe…
tomorrow I will be home

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