Sunday, May 24, 2009

Bye Bye Car!


Well, this is certainly a first!  I can't complain too much because we have towed this car over 30,000 miles, but it just refuses to go a mile further.  Actually, the transmission went out on it and just four short days before leaving on this trip we got it out of an almost month-long visit to the shop for a brand new transmission.   Unfortunately, the cap that keeps the fluid in our brand new transmission was not put on tightly enough at the service center and it leaked all the transmission fluid out during our journey to Paducah.  I have learned that an engine can't live without transmission fluid, sooooo the nice man at AAA came and towed her all the way to Evansville, Indiana.  I will have to figure out later how to get it back.  This will be the first time we have travelled without a car.  What a pain!