Another day, another challenge. Good news is that we are all making the best of the situation. Arlene's nephew-in-law drove 2 1/2 hours this morning to have breakfast with us. Clearly he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to see his Aunt Arlene and it didn't hurt that his dad lives near Cedar Falls. We were thankful that he was willing to drive us to Waterloo in his vintage Mustang so we could pick up a rental truck and trailer.
The gang gathered for breakfast and lingered until after 9:00 before getting on the road. It was nice of them to keep us company until we could contact the rental company -- but in truth a little organization chaos may have been the cause of their delay.
We called the rental company to see what time we could pick up the truck -- and learned that we could head over right away. We had rented the truck and were on the road by 11:00. Pretty good recovery from yesterday's disaster. Barrie called Bill Richardson with a list of needed parts and Bill promised to get it in the overnight FedEX. Amazing how the pieces are falling together. We arrange for a place to work in Auburn and a place to have the parts shipped. Our next two days will be spent hauling the car to Auburn. We have a pretty comfortable ride with air conditioning.
We are making good progress and see no reason why we can't catch up with our group outside of Chicago this evening. We stop a time or two to check the load. These rental trailers were not really made for 125" wheelbase (the car hangs out fore and aft) but all seems to be secure. We stop for lunch in Iowa City and are swarmed by a group of old men who want us to know that there is an antique car museum in town. We grab a quick bite and stop by the museum to see the collection. Amazing collection of early (late 1800s - early 1900s unrestored cars). The folks at the museum offer to help us fix our car. Since we have parts ready to great us in Auburn, we thank them for the offer but decline. We still have more than 100 miles before we make our evening stop.
The afternoon rolls along relatively smoothly. I say relatively because an empty moving truck pulling a trailer on an old interstate is not exactly smooth. Never-the-less, we arrive at the hotel in Tinely Park before the rest of the gang. I take this as an opportunity for a quick workout. The group arrives just as were are finishing up our workout and we learn of Josh's trials over the course of the day. Evidendtly a combination of bad roads, high winds and big trucks resulted in Josh's hood flying open. The good news is that the people (Josh & Betty) are fine and the car suffered relatively minor damage. I don't even want to think about what might have happened. We all gather for dinner around 8 and head off to our rooms tired but glad that the team in still traveling together
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