| Monday June 4th, After a nice Delta flight to
San Diego the reality of this not being a vacation set in. Trish
and Katheleen had a lot of work to do, including throwing out furniture,
returning cable, packing stuff, cleaning and vaccuming, and most
important, buying a storage unit for the roof. I took the ride to
sears to buy one trish saw online. Things didn't go well from the
start, if you've ever been to a Sears Automotive Center it is not like
walking into a store, finding what you want, bringing it up to the
register, paying for it and leaving. I had to wait on a long line
with people who had to have their car problems ironed out. When I
finally got what I wanted an hour later things got more interesting.
I figured it would come ready to strap to the roof and off I would go.
Not to be. It had to be assembled with like 30 parts and tools
required. as you can see from the photo of the Chevy cavalier and
the "XCargo" it was not going to be as easy as fitting a asquare peg in
a round hole. I took liberty with the hard plastic and eventyually
jammed it in. the fun was just beginning though. when I got
it back to Trish and Kath's apartment Theo and I followed instructions
and put it together. |
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When it was done there was only one
problem, no hardware to mount it to the rooff. A further reading
of the instructions revealed that you had to buy seperately the mounting
kit. It was bad enough the guys in sears didn't mention that, now
I know why.
They don't have it in stock. we tried two more Sears and noone had
it either. Theo and I came up with many plans to build our own.
We finally went with the simplest solution. Cut slits in the
bottom of the hard plastic, thread the straps through the thing and
ratchet it inside the car. That should hold for almost 4,000 miles
at 70mph right? |
The cleanest their apartment has looked in
years. Theo doesnt recognize it.
We eventually got it loaded and then decided to get ourselves loaded as
well. it was the girls last night after all and they wanted to say
goodbye to the many good friends they had made over the years. |
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Theo and Adam are drowning their sorrow. |
No one looks too sad |
Kira and Ilsa will not get great sets anymore. |
Nervous about the big trip |
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This is the view that the girls saw every
afternoon that they woke up and left their apartment. it's been
Grand on Grand Ave |
