Mental note to self, always have car checked out thoroughly before driving hours and hours through the desert. On the way down through the desert, I started thinking about how hot, how empty this place was and how horrible it would be to be stranded in the midst of it. Then about an hour from our destination the air conditioner stopped working—not cool, no pun intended. There was nothing to do but to keep pushing forward and pray that we would make it quickly. It took a few minutes for the kids to notice there was no cold air, but they were really troopers and hung in there and we all made it. We had the car fixed and checked out so as not to repeat this unfortunate incident on the return trip. All looked well and seemed to be working fine on the way back, until we were about two hours away from our city. All of the sudden our car was hot again, not the air but the actual car. We pulled off, prayed, poured water on the engine, added oil and started again. Thankfully we had reached the first big city after the desert—thanks be to God for looking after us! Nothing seemed to be working, so we inched our way to a car shop to discover that the radiator cap was old and allowing air into the radiator, allowing the coolant to boil and the car to overheat. Phew! Thankfully we were travelling with some friends so we were able to rearrange and get me and the kids back while husband dear got to figure this out and expand his ever-growing knowledge base!
