Well, this ought to be exciting. After a good nights rest, Lieren, her Mother, Chris, and I all headed up to Donut Falls for a little hiking. Salt Lake City, as well as Utah, is surrounded by mountains in every direction. Even now in the summer months, snow lingers on several peaks and reminds us of the pure beauty that exists almost year round.
Once we were one with nature we proceeded to the local watering hole, Ruth's Diner, located way up in the hills of Salt Lake. We decided to take the Chevy Cobalt, also known as "Kyla" up to the diner to see how she was doing. By the way, Lieren's Father and I spent several hours the night before replacing the air filter and crossing our fingers hoping the problem would be solved. It was interesting because my co-pilot, navigator, and photographer, was in the house the whole time drinking, talking, and seemingly uninterested that the car was not running. That is fine though because after replacing the air filter, I fired him.
Anywho, we drove up to the diner and just as we were entering the parking lot, boom we lost power. The car coasted into the perfectly positioned parking spot and I wondered to myself, "at least we are at a diner." We ate a lovely lunch, noticed that the diner was slanted, and turned the car on. Yes, it did turn on. However we knew at this point, she needed to go to the shop. Thus, we headed back down the mountain into the center of town and ten minutes from the local Chevy dealership she lost power once and for all. Lieren's Dad, who has been a godsend, arrived immediately and attached a tow line from his truck to Kyla. With Chris and Mr. Allen in the truck and Lieren and I in the Cobalt we began the long adventure to the dealership. At the beginning I said, "what could possibly go wrong now?" About five minutes in we took a right hand turn and about midway into the turn my wheels locked up and I lost all brakes. With the wheels turned all the way to the right we swung out into the oncoming turning lane coming only an inch from hitting the cars on the opposite side of the road. After barely missing these cars, which were honking at me because obviously I had full control of the situation and was swinging onto the other side of the road because I enjoy collisions, the car kept turning right. Making about a 160 degree turn, I thought, "shit." After almost colliding with oncoming cars, we were now on course to collide with a building. Thinking quickly and evasively, with Lieren quite composed in the passenger seat, I pulled up the emergency break forcing the car to skid to the left and in the end stopping perfectly next to the curb. Of course, this was my intention the entire time.
Looking at Lieren and then Chris in the truck, which of course was stopped with Mr. Allen exiting his car saying "what happened back there?" I thought, wow. What else is there to say in a situation like that besides wow. We re-hooked the car up and made it to the dealership with no more incidents.
Now folks, we will be on the road once again come Friday, and turns out the electronic sensor somewhere in the car doing something for the car, is not working properly. This part will be flown in from Detroit Thursday morning and then like I said, we will be on our way. Do not worry, for it is only part of the great cross country adventure and thank God we decided to go to Salk Lake instead of Seattle.
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