The truck was left for repair while we rented a car and drove to Boston for two nights in the Quality Inn in Lexington MA. The road trip was necessary because we had two critically important commitments: my first summer softball game on Monday and Jett’s appointment with her doctor on Tuesday. Both went reasonably well: my team won both games, though I can’t take much of the credit, and Jett got lots of blood taken for a battery of tests. We are keeping our fingers crossed on both the truck and the blood tests.
As you can see from the photo below, the weather for the softball game was sunny and warm – a perfect softball day. This was just a stroke of luck because it rained all the way to Boston and rained all the way back to Newburgh. The traffic on the return trip was terrible. A miserable 5-hour trip.
We had a couple of hours to kill on Tuesday morning – Jett’s doctor appointment was at 1:30 pm – so I went out in search of a used car. We wanted an inexpensive car that we could use while we are in MA – a “summer rat.” Buying and selling should be cheaper than renting. Unless we run into mechanical problems, of course.
I found a 2008 Ford Fusion that looked like it would meet our needs, so I took Jett to see it. She loved it. So within the course of an hour we had bought it. We will take possession on Saturday.
It wasn’t part of the original TN4 plan, but it turned out to be a pretty productive road trip.
First softball game
Summer rat