Vacation wrap-up...

[jay]

Friday, I took patgreene to a hospital ER for chest pains. Then took the kids to the beach, picked up Pat after her release, and then headed home. We were stranded on I-5 when the transmission on our van broke. Eventually tenacious_snail rode to our rescue...

	Tri-Cities Emergency Room entrance Pat had chest pain and shortness of breath, here in Carlsbad, CA. She was checked out... it turned out to be a pulled pectoral muscle, plus an asthma flare-up.
	Kids at the beach Here are James, Kevin and David at the beach near San Diego, while Pat was being tested at a nearby hospital. Kevin and David had fun, but James complained that he was now too heavy to body-surf...
	James at the beach I thought this showed James off well... he has grown a lot, in several respects, since we were last here.
	Midnight breakdown on I-5 near Coalinga, CA Trying to rush home early so I could catch a flight to Atlanta the next morning, our 2004 Freestar broke down on I-5, seven miles from the nearest exit, in almost total darkness other than headlights of passing cars and trucks. Eventually, Ford sent out a tow truck, who dropped Pat and the kids and I at a motel at the next exit (adjacent to Harris Ranch) before taking the car to the nearest Ford dealer (in Coalinga, 25 miles west).