Sunday, May 13, 2012
Gay May-12-12
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Sharp's Travels
We had a very interesting and somewhat frustrating day. I forgot to mention that yesterday we had a CD stuck in the radio and our new GPS quit working, low battery came up on the screen and it just shut itself down. It was plugged into the power port and the green light was on. I will check it out when we get to Branson. I did get the CD out of the radio this morning. Before we left Sam’s this morning we walked across the street and had a big breakfast at Cracker Barrel. It was around 9:00 am when we pulled out of Sam’s heading for Branson. As soon as we got on the road it started to rain which lasted for about an hour. We saw many crops long the way, corn that was about 5 feet tall and wheat that probably will be ready to combine in a week. We also saw field after field of peanuts that were just coming up, along with several peanut factories. As we were driving along the truck started losing power. It is a sign that the fuel filter is plugging so we stopped along the highway and in twenty minutes I had it changed and we were back on the road. Well that didn’t fix the power problem. We limped along looking for a place to get it fixed and no big cities for several miles. A couple of time it seem to get better and then at times we couldn’t get over 30 miles an hour and down to 15 miles an hour on the hills. We finally pulled into a Wal-Mart parking lot. I talked to a trucker that was there and he said I would have to go to Birmingham to find a repair shop. I got the computer out and started checking for someplace in Birmingham and after searching for 45 minutes I didn’t come up with anything. I knew it was Saturday and I wouldn’t be able to get anything done until Monday and if they have to order parts it would be Tuesday or Wednesday before we would be on our way. I prayed and said God I have done all I can and now it’s in your hands. Cheri and talked about what we were going to do and it was about 80 miles to Birmingham. We decided all we could do was limp into Birmingham and stop at a truck stop and find out from them where to take the truck to be fixed. So off we went, well as we pulled out of Wal-Mart we had full power, but the check engine light was still on and the speedometer was acting crazy. Down the road we were heading down a big hill and I put on the exhaust brake and when we got to the bottom of the hill we lost power again and were down to a crawl. Now I knew what was causing the problem, the exhaust brake was stuck closed. We limp into a service station and I got out and wrapped on the brake with a hammer and it open up. Problem solved for the day. With all that happened and rain off and on we were a couple of hours behind our schedule of where we wanted to be so we drove until 7:00 pm local time and stopped in Jonesboro Arkansas at Sam’s. We went inside to find out if we could stay in the parking lot and got the OK. We had pizza and an ice cream Sunday at their food area. We were tired and in bed by 9:00 pm.
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