when it rains...

we are stranded on I5 in the middle of nowhere... transmission died, at midnight. Mile 324. two hours from home...sigh. It is very dark, am using the Treo as a flashlight.

Rescued... now off again

Whew. Stranded in the dark with kids and Pat on the shoulder of I-5 near Coalinga... for hours... that wasn't fun. The tow cost me $155 and truck showed up around 2am... he dropped us off at the next exit, with whatever we could unload while the car was still lifted. Fortunately there was a motel with a room available... we crashed for a couple of hours there.

Meanwhile... my sweetie rocks. I sent an SOS to tenacious_snail... and she went to the airport, rented a minivan that could hold us all and our stuff at 1am, and drove the 2-1/2 hours alone down to rescue us, arriving around 4:45am. We loaded and she dropped us at home by 7:30am... watching a beautiful sunrise.

I showered, changed, re-packed and then Les picked me up at 8:30am to go to SFO airport for my flight to Atlanta...

when it rains... v.2

on the ground, barely, in Atlanta. Currently trapped inside the plane because we landed (4th attempt) in a thunderstorm and it is unsafe for ground crews to come out to direct us in. We circled... airport was completely stopped twice. Had we not made it down on this attempt, we would have been diverted to Nashville. Still... this is annoying. And viz yesterday, okay, now it *is* raining... (wry grin).