Escape from car repairs

June 14, 2009 Sunday We spend the day “church hopping”. We first went to Unity for the lecture given by a beautiful Black woman whom we found was from the church we were going to later – “World Peace Gathering”! After Unity we went to the LDS Church of our friends we were staying with. We were late and didn’t know were to go. There was lots happening. So we left quietly not wanting to disturb. We later find out there are 3 “wards” having service there that morning and so there’s a different group in the main hall every hour. After taking a drive around in this beautiful area for awhile we head “home” for a fun evening of a new game called Settlers. Gerrit had won (he always wins, Myia tells them) the night before and they sought revenge which they get!


June 15, 2009 Monday. Begins early with another car day – Day 6 for us of not having our car and home. We told the owner we would open the shop and here we are. Today they won’t forget us. Today is the party for Gerrit’s parents 55th Wedding Anniversary and he has arranged with his tech-smart brother to “visit” the party via Skype at an appointed time. We head to the beautifully equipped new library to sit in our private study room where we can access the wireless with our laptop and wait for the Skype video call. It comes immediately and we are again grateful for the amazing world we live in where we can literally be half a whole way celebrating his parent’s anniversary and in this old west town in Southern Utah. Ah, Life IS miraculous!
And then back to this realm and the car! They work on it for another 2 hours and finally we test drive. The cruise control doesn’t work now! After another search and questions, “Did it work before?”, they find a loose wire and we are very gratefully on our way.



Get gas, supplies, back to our friends, which they certainly are after all this! Giving of presents and saying goodbye, we are off to further parts unknown!! Freedom again. We didn’t know how much we depend on it now.













We go thru Durango and go to a movie set museum. This is where the wild west movies were made. We meet my all time favorite stars – Tonto and the Masked Man!! We escape to Canyon de Chelley sleepily arriving late in the evening to the campground.