Durango Drifters Beautiful Disaster :)

Triple AAA again...but this time our friend Chad's quick fix remedy of wigglin' the battery wire with a splash of coke isn't going to miracously fix the hanging by a thread belt on the front side of the engine. Which also happens to operate the AC compressor and cooling agent. (100 degrees+ temps here, windows down are going to cut it). But looking at the glass half full, thankfully we made it here to St. George Utah and this did not happen yesterday. If so, we were driving through the desert heat surrounded by geicos and dry cactus for 7 hours and every so often saw signs that read "111 miles to the nearest gas station." The boys are towing it now to the nearest garage to find out the damage done, and more importantly the friendly donation we have to dish out for the fix. Keep your fingers crossed with us. We actually blame the entire incident on Kristina, who said yesterday morning when we got whiffs of burnt peanut butter from the engine... "yeah i saw a squirrel underneath the engine nibbling on a gronola bar wrapper." (When she stuck around the campsite all day, as the rest of us took on half dome). Then we pull out a chocolate chip/ peanut butter gronola bar that is finely wrapped into a ball stuck somewhere in the engine. Thanks Kris, for the heads up. Or for 'shoo-ing' away the squirrel, it was a squirrel, not a BEAR! So now that were nesteled up in the Comfort Inn (check out time was at 11 am) we are either a.) booking another night if we are not blessed enough with good news and little labor...(will probably find the nearest cinema and hitch hike to toy story 3 tonight) or b.)are blessed enough with a 'bang-bang play' fixture and will continue to drift on to Bryce/Zion our suppose to be destination for today. (We should probably tell housekeeping our decision but furst we have to hear back from the boys on what kind of day its going to be...)We will keep you posted. Stay tuned for more on the beautiful disaster of the durango drifters.

Embrace the unexpected,
Tric.xo.

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pss. the boys just came back with the breaking news...AC COMPRESSOR BELT SHOT/ if we would have kept driving the result would have been a hot engine bust. We are exercising plan A. the car will be fixed late afternoon...with a whopping 1k.

Looks like skydiving dreams just plummeted to the ground :(

Happy Summer, & stay cool.