Best bumper stickers on the ride through the Outer Banks yesterday:
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BooMan is still recovering from the long drive, not to mention the joys of having the radiator hose blow up while we were in line for the ferry to Ocracoke yesterday…
But as things go, it probably picked the best place it could to do that. Within an hour and a half, we had the car pickup and repair arranged, and a way too expensive taxi across the ferry to our rental house with most of our stuff. (Thanks to the great folks at the NC ferry service who helped us sort things out so quickly!)
The new hose won’t get here till tomorrow, so we just rented an extra pair of bikes to get around the village on until then, and now we have time to find a ride to the ferry docks tomorrow to go back to Hatteras and get the car. The boys are just happy to be fishing and hanging ut, so it’s all good.
Anybody else have vacation horror stories to share?
bought a brand new tent for the 2009 wind gap bluegrass fest, but which i discovered had a mis-matched pole, so the fly wouldn’t cover the entire tent.
you can guess what happened next: rain, and lots of it. The entire festival from thursday-sunday, was nothing but rain rain rain.
and the ten got soaked soaked soaked.
good luck!
Ugh. Reminds me of the folk festival when I was 18…rain, rain, rain for days and days…nothing but mud everywhere. You couldn’t walk anywhere without sinking or slipping in it, and dry clothes were a hot commodity, even with all the right tent poles.
Do you have the replacement pole yet?
Ugh…sounds too much like our vacation. We just got back from a trip south, wherein we spent an unplanned week in Grants Pass OR waiting for a part to come in for our dead car. Gavin (my wife) had to get back to Seattle, so I rented a car and drove her back (400 miles), then drove back to GP to pick up our car…and on a mountain pass south of Roseburg the rental car died. On I-5. On a 103 degree day. (Thank Gaia for AAA; Budget was no help at all, though once I got back to GP they were all apologetic.)
Safe and home now, with our fixed car, recovering from all that relaxation.
First of all, welcome BooMan, to North Carolina and OBX.
Vacation horror stories. This year we also went to Ocarcoke, traveling there on the ferry from Cedar Island. As we rolled off the ferry on a sunny Sunday morning, I heard a thump, thump, thump, thump. Pulling into the closest parking lot, I discovered that tire was flat. Of course, the doughnut was buried in its well under all of the stuff we were hauling to camp out.
We found out that for fifty cents you can pump air at the local garage even on a weekend. So we did and it held for 24 hours. The next day we had it repaired at the local garage. Just a nail in the tire. Fixed in 15 minutes for an extremely reasonable price.
Well, Sunday was a bad day to blow a hose. Everything was closed. Even today, they couldn’t get the part. But we got lucky it blew on the ferry dock. Out in the dunes, we would have been effed without cell phone coverage.
In Atlantic City tooth starting hurting. No biggie, popped some Ibuprofen and kept on. Two days later big pain-worse than labor pains-and face swelled up. VERY Attractive. We were due to leave that day anyway but by this time I couldn’t eat or talk. So I told my friend to get me the hell out of New Jersey. Pouring down rain-drove in circles for 2 hours trying to get on the road back to Va.
3AM rolled into the ER here at home. They had to carry me in and said I could have died-turns out it was an abcessed tooth. Pumped me up with morphine and called in an oral surgeon.
Meantime my friend waiting for me in the waiting room had gone down with a heart issue so they had to put a monitor on her.
TRIP FROM HELL.
Ugh, that sounds way worse than a blown radiator hose.