Albemarle Automobile Adventures

As Karrin, Courtney, and I prepared for our 4-H Livestock Field Day tomorrow, we decided to go check out the location of the event yesterday. We jumped into Karrin's car and headed to the farm that the livestock event will be held out. I had never been to that side of the county and was excited to see this farm. We plugged the address into our GPS and off we went! We arrived at the road we were supposed to be on, but after driving a few miles, never found the farm. The address we had put into the GPS didn't even exist! We turned around drove back to another farm and stopped to ask for directions. A guy told us to drive three miles down the curvy, gravel road and it would be on our right...so we did. The gas light lit up to tell us we were almost out of gas, but we kept driving!

We drove past the place again and had to turn around and go back. Finally we found the farm and looked around. We left the car running because the one time we turned it off, it barely started again because it was so low on gas.

When we left the farm, I remembered that we had passed a tiny, old, overpriced gas station at some point on our journey, so if it was in service we could stop there on the way back! We drove into a tiny town and found the post office and the small gas station. We got excited because we finally would have gas and knew we would make it home! However....
This tiny gas station did not take credit or debit cards...only cash. Courtney and I had left our wallets at the office, but Karrin had hers! And inside was...four $1 bills. We had $4. Gas was $3.03/gallon. So this was good. Karrin went in and paid for $4.01 of gas and we were on our way once again, with the gas light still on and the car still beeping at us to fill up the tank. Eventually we made it on to Rt. 29, then I-64, then we saw the Exxon station and zipped in to fill up the tank before heading back to the office.

None of us had ever had the pleasure of breaking down on the side of the road because we had run out of gas, and none of us wanted yesterday to be the day to try it out. But after our visit to Exxon, Karrin's little car was happy and full of gas once again; and ready for our next adventure!

But wait...that's not all! Little did I know............

On my way home after work, my car started overheating and I had to pull off the road twice and turn the heat on high to let it cool down a little bit before attempting to head a little farther up the road. After pulling off the road for the third time, I called my dad and a tow truck came to the rescue! I got to ride in the nice air conditioned cab of the truck and have good conversation with the driver before dropping my car off at the repair shop and riding home with my mom. I'm driving my family's super cool minivan today. (ha!)

So many fun-filled car events that keep your adrenaline rushing! 

Finally made it home. :)