The Villa...
I arrived at the villa around 2 in the morning today. Aggie wasn't done with prior commitments until sometime around 11, so we got kind of a late start. It's not that big of a deal though, I'm used to driving at all sorts of times these days.
Thursday, I woke up at 1 am to drive down to Maryland to pick up some cement mixers. It was supposed to be a six hour drive down, one hour there, and an eight hour drive back. As always, nothing went according to plan. On the way back, the fuel filter in one of the trucks was clogged. This meant that we were going 15 mph uphill on the New York Thruway. Talk about scary!!!!! Most cars were going 65-75 mph and we were only going 15. We ended up getting a new fuel filter for that thing, and then of course more had to go wrong. In the other truck we had a blow out in the front, so we had to leave that one on the side of the road for the towing company to come and pick up. OK, just when we thought it couldn't get any worse it did. In the same truck that we had already replaced the fuel filter, we ran out of gas. This is because the gas gague didn't work...go figure. Luckily, we were only a few minutes away from a gas station so I had to go and buy a can, put some diesel fuel in it, and drive back to the truck. We got it started, drove to the gas station and were finally on our way again. 10:30 pm came around and we finally arrived home, 21.5 hours later. Talk about the longest day ever.
Today me and Ed went in search of some trails that my dad told me were really nice. He said that they were good and he had a fun time or something like that. All we found was mud and dead ends, it was pretty much the worst ride ever. To supplement this lousy ride, I decided that swim out to the raft (which was put in this morning) was the only solution. It looks like it's only about 200 yards away, but it feels like it's way longer when you have to swim that far. Now that I have a good wireless connection right outside my front door and not much to do for the next few days I'll be able to update.
Thursday, I woke up at 1 am to drive down to Maryland to pick up some cement mixers. It was supposed to be a six hour drive down, one hour there, and an eight hour drive back. As always, nothing went according to plan. On the way back, the fuel filter in one of the trucks was clogged. This meant that we were going 15 mph uphill on the New York Thruway. Talk about scary!!!!! Most cars were going 65-75 mph and we were only going 15. We ended up getting a new fuel filter for that thing, and then of course more had to go wrong. In the other truck we had a blow out in the front, so we had to leave that one on the side of the road for the towing company to come and pick up. OK, just when we thought it couldn't get any worse it did. In the same truck that we had already replaced the fuel filter, we ran out of gas. This is because the gas gague didn't work...go figure. Luckily, we were only a few minutes away from a gas station so I had to go and buy a can, put some diesel fuel in it, and drive back to the truck. We got it started, drove to the gas station and were finally on our way again. 10:30 pm came around and we finally arrived home, 21.5 hours later. Talk about the longest day ever.
Today me and Ed went in search of some trails that my dad told me were really nice. He said that they were good and he had a fun time or something like that. All we found was mud and dead ends, it was pretty much the worst ride ever. To supplement this lousy ride, I decided that swim out to the raft (which was put in this morning) was the only solution. It looks like it's only about 200 yards away, but it feels like it's way longer when you have to swim that far. Now that I have a good wireless connection right outside my front door and not much to do for the next few days I'll be able to update.
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