On the road again ... YEAH!!

Last week sure held its challenges. We left Mission on Monday and by the time we got to Brauning Lake near San Antonio, we knew that we had a problem with the truck. Doug had an error message on the dash and changed the fuel filters accordingly. We got up Tuesday and continued our trip. We got as far as Boerne and decided that the truck had to go in the shop before we continue on IH-10. This highway gets were desolate after San Antonio and I really did not want us to break down in the middle of nowhere.

So the truck went into the Volvo shop on Tuesday and we were told that they would be able to work on it on Friday. This is not the way I wanted to start our trip to Vancouver. We stayed in a nice campground and decided on Wednesday to go check out the town of Boerne. We had driven through about four years ago and it looked quaint. We spend a good three hours going to various stores (my favorite thing to do) and stopped for lunch. I took a picture of a very interesting building.


Thursday we went to the movies and on Friday Doug called the shop to find out how the truck was doing. We were told that they would not be able to get it in the shop until Monday. My blood pressure rose drastically, but there was nothing we could do. We got a call from Doug's dad on Saturday that they had returned from California. Since we might not see them for a long time, we met up for a very nice lunch on Sunday at our favorite German restaurant in New Braunfels. So there was something good about being delayed.

We went to the truck shop on Monday to see what was going on. The truck was not in the shop and again my blood pressure was rising. We got to talk to the shop foreman and promised that the truck would go in right after lunch. We decided to find a mall and wait for a while. I did not realize how close we were to downtown San Antonio and we actually ended up at the Riverwalk. We had a nice lunch, did some walking and returned to the truck shop around 1:30 pm. Now our truck was actually in the shop and we decided to wait around a while to see what they would find. They found a faulty sensor, which they had to get from a local dealer and then the truck would be ready to go hopefully. We decided to go back to Boerne, since there was nothing we could do in the meantime. We got a call a couple of hours later and were informed that the truck was ready to go. Of course by now it is rush hour in San Antonio and we decided to wait just a little bit before going back through San Antonio. The trip to the Volvo dealer was interesting, since traffic really backed up on the two loops, but by the time we had the truck picked up traffic was gone and we made it through the middle of San Antonio just fine. I have never been so happy to see our big red truck!!!

So this morning we went on our way again and this time everything is going smooth (knock on wood). We should be able to visit with Mike and Pat by the end of the week.