Dec. 16th

Tuesday! Last night we camped out at a construction site across the street from the jeep dealership. This morning the sun was peeking through the window shades and we awoke to the sweet sounds of birds singing, and hugh "Gradall" lift trucks rumbling by our trailer. Seems we parked right in the middle of a loop in the construction driving path so all the various trucks and lifts rumble past on the left, loop around and head the other way on the right. Its great. Its 9 AM now and I am back at the jeep place enjoying their wireless internet and waiting for work on the repairs. The problem was some kind of sensor that monitors the drive shafts and the part was not in stock and had to be ordered from california.

HEY! The service person just walked by and informed me that the part arrived this morning and they are working on the car now. Maybe we will hit the road again soon. I sure hope they fixed the right thing. I guess we will find out. If not it may be another short trip.

Yesterday the saleman started to make me an offer for a trade in. I told him it would have to be a killer of a deal because we like this new jeep. He went out an looked it over and came back wagging his head. He said, "To trade in, you would have to take a big hit in the wallet, because that is the way dealers work. Your jeep is really nice, we really don't have anything like it available."

God did bless us with a nice deal on it. It has every imaginable extra, stuff I never thought of and it has the turbo diesel engine made by Mercedes Benz.