Day 249, Year 6 All About Vehicles
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Weather: Gorgeous Day, Temp mid-70’s
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Today was all about vehicles. We first drove our daughter’s old Honda from Woods Hole to Falmouth to get it inspected. After getting the muffler replaced yesterday, the inspection took only ten minutes and the car passed the test. We thought the rust was going to be a problem, but they let it go this time. We then drove to Yarmouth to get the title transferred on the Ford Taurus station wagon we bought last Sunday. With the summer traffic, it took about an hour and fifteen minutes to get there, but we were in and out in about twenty minutes and on our way back to East Falmouth to Heather’s house. We put the new license plates on the station wagon and Mark took off in it for Boston. His pre-operation testing was scheduled for 3:45 pm this afternoon and he made it with time to spare. I then took Heather and Jed’s van to Super Lube to get the oil changed. They are leaving for a long weekend in Maine tomorrow morning and the van needed the oil change before the trip.
We got an email from our friend Zbyszek this morning and the subject line said, “You will not become dirt diggers.” He and Tina are sailing in Greece and Turkey this summer and he was just letting us know that he’s positive we won’t be satisfied living a “normal” life for long. He’s convinced that once you’ve experienced the freedom of a being a world cruiser that trying to fit in “back home” is not an easy task. But then, he doesn’t have grandchildren yet. Admittedly all of the hassles of getting cell phone service we can afford, getting internet access we can afford, dealing with vehicles, and on and on, do make one question the sanity of being permanently plugged in to a land base.
Justin, Jo, and Ziggy made it to England with no problems. We heard from Jo’s mother that Ziggy was happily playing in her gardens this afternoon. And we read that the wild fire in Los Alamos is no longer a threat. All is well that ends well, but it is frightening to think of what could have happened if those barrels of plutonium waste had burst due to the high heat. Both of our children will be spending the upcoming weekend with in-laws. Mark works tomorrow, but not Saturday or Sunday, so we have the weekend all to ourselves and I think we will spend the time doing a little maintenance on Windbird. She has been good to us and she needs a little TLC, so we’ll hope for beautiful weather so we can enjoy the work. And maybe we’ll even have time to catch up on long-overdue correspondence.
