8/11/11
Happy Birthday Kate! Hope it was great!
For us, today was a rough day. We didn’t get out of Vegas until about 11:30 am and we were heading towards the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. We went over the Hoover Dam which was great:
It was beautiful, but as the day went on we got hot and cranky. I was being snappy and short with Tun, and she was exercising her formidable stubbornness in all kinds of creative ways. After a couple hours Lucy starts running like she only has about 60% power and it’s hard to keep from stalling when at idle. But we’re 40 miles from the nearest town, so we chug along at 50mph on the highway, dropping to 3rd and sometimes 2nd to make it up the hills. Lucy’s not feeling her best. Perhaps she caught a Bug (zing!). We eventually roll into Kingman and quickly find a local VW guy after asking around.
We’re going to start by adjusting the valves in the morning (engines need to sit cold overnight before valves can be adjusted) and then we’ll see. That may do it, or it might take more. It was running like it was down a cylinder, so maybe one cylinder’s not getting spark. We’ll see.
Oh, and when we rolled into town we lost our phone. So for two hours we tore apart the bus looking for it. I walked for 40 minutes in 100 degrees to revisit everywhere we had stopped. Eventually Tun found that it had fallen through a seat cushion and wedged itself in a weird hidden corner of a cabinet. One of those days. So it goes. Hopefully we’ll be rolling into the South Rim sometime tomorrow, a homecoming of sorts for Tun as she worked at a resort there one summer during college.
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