November 10-17, 2009 – a short break from our safari
Tuesday morning, November 10th, we flew home to Ashland from Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was a sad trip, Mike’s mom had died the night before and we didn’t get to say good bye. We knew at the onset of planning this adventure that this might happen, but none the less it was difficult to deal with. We took the week to make the necessary arrangements, make plans, deal with paper work and gather up loose ends. Mike was able to spend some quality time with his brothers Steve and Chuck, to remember their mom. The family will be together for the holidays this year and we will set some time aside to remember the senior Wraights and what they meant to our families.
Monday, November 16th we flew back to Albuquerque – long day, but we were glad to get back to the MoHo and restart our adventure
Tuesday morning we bailed the “Boys” out of their kennel and discovered that our “Towed”, the Prius was ailing and in need of some TLC. A visit to the local Toyota shop revealed her in need of a new fuel pump, water pump and some work on the hybrid system. Not good news. We know that she has 93,000+ miles on her, with over 3,000 we have put on in this trip, and we have had to do little to no work on her, BUT the timing could have been better. Oh well with our familiar mantra “it is only money” we left her for the needed repairs and went to rest up at the campground in Albuquerque. Hopefully we will be back on the road in a day or two. Our plans are still to be in So. Cal. for Thanksgiving. Stay tuned for next installment: “Will they make Turkey Day?”