I never told you how we almost didn’t even make it out of town on this trip. You’re gonna love this.
So, wife had been nagging me to get the breaks checked on our Jeep Cherokee. “They make funny sounds,” she says. I haven’t heard anything, case closed.
I kept saying “no, the things only got 29k miles.” Well a week before the trip, the breaks start, uh huh, making noise when I’m drivin’. So, into the shop we go. Now it’s 2 days before we leave before I get the thing in. Drop it off, go home, and do some stuff. Waiting for the call that says” “Breaks fine.”
Get the phone call. Breaks, fine. “But,” says the guy, “there’s something else.” I sayz, “forget about the damn air filter, don’t need one…” Er, that’s the oil lube place, wrong place. He says, “No, we noticed your transfer case plug is gone and your fluid is gone ….” I fail to remember the rest.
Flashback… 2 months ago. Wife takes the Jeep to a Cheap-a-Lube place before she took some trip…. uh huh, their minimum wage “out of state” cheap workforce failed to replace the plug.
Long story short, drove back down to lube place, threatened bodily harm, and turned the Jeep over to the shop to be fixed… on the Lube’s dime. Nice.
So, that’s all taken care of, only, it’s gonna take a week. “Nope, nadda…” We leave tomorrow…
Ok, it was rental car time. Fine, got a nice big Nissan Armada, the biggest gas guzzling SUV I could find. I wanted every environmentalist whacko to sneer at me as I drove my big ass ship across America guzzling gas.
We pick it up morning we are to leave. Kids pile in. Wife piles in. Dad trips over something and face plants into the door before piling in.
We leave. 2 days from Colorado to Illinois.
So we made it. No worries… The Tank was a beast to drive.
Thankfully, the idiot lube joint was the only serious hang-up of the trip…
Now on to the trip.
We arrive in Illinois, visit the family, trek into Chicago and visit more family. Good times, great times.
We head out, 12 hour day, from Illinois to Pennsylvania. We arrive, no major issues.
