Well, I feel better!  Waiting to see if anyone else is sick.  Nope, good to go. What time is it? Yup 11:00 straight up.  Really?

Full of fuel, check! Water check! Everyone on board! Ok let’s go

Going down the road, I just remembered, I didn’t shut the lights off on the car because I was so sick when we quit the night before.  I pulled off on the next exit so I could check and sure enough, the car is DEAD.  So, we are looking for a jump pack, supposed to be on board, can’t find it.  Call Bryan, he said just go into the storage unit below the coach and put on a new light.  Duh, we are in a coach with TowMate written all over it.  Oh my goodness!  I figured, next truck stop someone could help is.

Driving continues. For maybe an hour. There was a semi ahead of me in the right lane and I’m in the left lane behind him.  There was plenty of room until a Milk truck racing through and basically cuts in between us and starts coming into my lane.  I move over as much as I can.  There is no shoulder on either side.  OMG he hit our front quarter panel and I had all I could do to keep the coach on the road.  He just kept on going.  I honked the horn to no avail.  Maybe he didn’t realize what he did, but now, I have no brakes!  I tried for the pac brake, the top was off, must have reached for it and knocked it off.  I would try and NO BRAKES.  We are barreling down the freeway at 70 miles an hour and no damn brakes.  I’m honking, trying to get people out of the way, I must have switched lanes 3 or 4 times trying to avoid the cars ahead that didn’t know we were in trouble.  We went up a small incline, that helped, but it sure didn’t help going back down.  There was also construction on the road.  Finally I thought about how in the movies when that stuff happens, you put it into lower gears and the transmission will slow it down.  Praise God, that worked.  God also provided a flat spot for which to come to a stop for a minute.  Only bad thing was, looking in the rear view mirror, I had cars and trucks running up behind me at 70 miles and hour.  Thank God, they figured it out and was able to go around.  I decided it wasn’t safe to stay there, so we limped along to the next exit, which again was a rest area. God is good!

I got out expecting a real mess, when in reality, a few minor scrapes and knocked off the turning light on the side of the coach.  My poor car on the other hand obviously took the brunt of it.  It looked like a teenager took it out 4 wheeling in the mud.  It also had a flat tire.

Inside the coach, McKenna didn’t even know what happened.  She was sleeping in her car seat.  I seem to remember people making fun of me because I wanted the two girls, in their car seats.  AND THIS IS WHY!  Melody was awake and I asked her if that scarred her and she just shook her head.  Unfortunately lyric was not buckled in but she held on to Melody and her car seat for dear life.

So, Bryan decides he’s flying down in the 210 plane, because the Malibu had to go back in after they got back from FL.  Fine, we waited there.  Everyone needed a break.

When Bryan arrived, the girls were so glad so see him.  He fixed the tire.  Lyric and the two little girls were going to go home in the plane.  I wanted Bryan to drive it for a bit and he said, No, it’s fine.  You can drive it, and I’ll follow behind you.

Apparently, what caused the brakes to go out on the coach, was all of my honking the horn.  They are both run by the same air thingy, so, note to self, don’t honk more than you need to!

Ok, great!  Here we go again. Barb, me and Molly!  Molly starts barking!  She’s telling me she doesn’t want to be in here.  Shut up, neither do we.  Man, she was just not having it.  So I put on the brakes, grabbed the dog, and took her out to the rental car Bryan was driving and said here you go.  (Needless to say, he wasn’t to happy with me)

Ah, it was definitely the most quiet moment we had on the trip.  Barb didn’t want me to continue driving, but I told her it’s like being thrown off a horse.  If you don’t get back on, you’ll never get on one again.  So, we go.

We drove for a while more up the road to find a place for the night.  Good night all and thank you to everyone praying over us on this trip.  God must have great things in store for us.  I love you guys, and so looking forward to getting back home, safe and sound