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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t part of the original TN4 plan, but it turned out to be a pretty productive road trip.<\/p>\n
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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 … Continue reading