We've traveled over 13K miles since May 20th, 2008 & are 110o miles from Alexandria, VA 0n Sept. 14th - BROKEN DOWN!!!
After a later "up & at 'em" departure this morning we continued our travel across the I40 from Oklahoma into Arkansas. Everything was going smoothly - Ann knitting, both Ann & Steve listening to "6 Frigates" cd on the cd player when Steve "freaked out" that we had 2 lights illuminated on the dash! The "check brakes" & the "ABS" (anti locking brake system) were on. I dashed to the reference book cupboard to retrieve the Ford manual to see what it said about these lights. "Likely brakes will not operate if both lights are illuminated." Shucks! We're almost home & besides that, it's Sunday! How do we get help? Well, we both held our breaths till the next exit, which fortunately was a bit larger town than most of the areas we had been passing, but as we had expected services are not available on Sundays. Thankfully, Steve, always erring on the side of caution, said we would not continue & would stay the day & night in Russelville, AR. Boo hoo! I just want to be home! However, we are in a nice campground. I was able to do some laundry given our now extended trip. The sun is shining. Tomorrow we will be in line at the Ford garage at 7am to see if they can assess our problem. We still have hopes that we can get home by late Tues. night. We'll see & I will post another blog if that is not the case.
Looking forward to seeing everyone again very soon. steve & ann
