Stats for Day Four:
Actual sleeping hours I got with Sarah kicking me all night - maybe 3
Make-your-own waffles made by the children - 3
Make-your-own waffles actually consumed by the children - 1 half, 1 quarter, and 2 bites
Hours to repair air conditioning - 3.5
Thank you's written by Sarah while waiting for the air conditioning to be repaired - 42
Thank you's remaining to be written by Sarah - about 125
Cost to repair air conditioning - $1,054
Bugs cleaned off the car's grill which caused the compressor to blow - millions!
New tires needed after mechanic repairing the air conditioning observed them to be bald - 1 (no, wait - 2)
Hours spent in K-Mart waiting for two new tires - 2.5
Food items the kids asked me to buy in K-Mart - 12
Food items bought - 4 (5 if you count the water)
Brilliant ideas conceived in K-Mart - 2 (buy a universal remote to replace the missing one from the minivan's DVD player, and buy three padded mailers to keep the Kindles and Nook in)
Brilliant ideas that worked - 1 (the universal remote didn't do the job - darn!)
Miles driven once we finally hit the road - 347.1
Hours on the road - 7.25
Time zones crossed - 1
States driven through - 3
Temperature outside the car - 101 degrees
Gratitude for repaired air conditioning - immeasureable
License plates found - 27
License plates found in parking lot before leaving the hotel - 9
Wind speed - 40 mph gusts
Sprawling wind farms rotating in the wind gusts on the Texas plains - 5.5 (one was under construction)
Tumbleweeds seen before we stopped counting - 20
Dead armiadillos - 2
Live armadillos - 0, but still hoping
Bloody noses - 1 (James)
Speed limit in Texas - 75 mph
Trips down Memory Lane - 1 (as we stopped at a rural Stuckey's in the back hills of Oklahoma and Gene relived childhood memories of road trips with his family)
A very big thank you to Cindy the office manager, Scott the mechanic, and Zane the owners of Zane's Auto Repair who got us on the road and kept us both cool and safe!
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