When life gives you lemons ...

We have a vehicle that's almost two years old and has about 22,000 miles (35,000 km) on it. It's a four-cylinder engine, but yesterday it seemed to be running on two or three cylinders at the most, and was hiccuping along. The dash didn't show any lit up trouble lights though. Thankfully Greg is a General Motors retiree and knows a lot about cars. After speaking with the closest GM dealership, about 25 minutes drive away, we took it in early this morning. Thankfully, we made it there too! Let's hope it's not the lemon in my story! 

2015 - after driving after the rain on sand roads in Mexico

The dealership employee only moved it about 100 feet and immediately agreed with Greg about the problem. However, they couldn't work on it until Monday, so they gave us another vehicle to use. The man helping us also suggested we visit a large street fair that was going on nearby. So when life gives you lemons (car problems), make lemonade (go to the street fair).

This is the first sign I noticed when we arrived. Greg went to ask them if they sold food, so they pointed down the street. The only breakfast they sold was beer. Life is different in the USA.

We were told the city expects around 300,000 people over the two days of the fair. It was only 10 am when we arrived so it wasn't too busy, but it was busy enough for us as we don't like crowds. The closed off streets had hundreds of stalls selling just about anything you could imagine. We walked, shopped, ate & drank ... and what did we have to drink? Yep, lemonade!

I bought myself a pair of earrings, and Greg bought himself a t-shirt. 

"Still bad to the bone"

Coming home on the highway, I took these photos of two exits that follow each other - 98 & 99. So what's so unusual?

Yep, 98 is in kilometres, and 99 is in miles. I noticed this on our way to the housesit, that 98 and lower, as we left Tucson, was all in kilometres, so I asked our homeowners.

Apparently when this highway was made, the USA was intending to switch to metric to fall in line with most other countries. So rather than have to change the signs later, they put up the signs in metric, before the law was passed, to save the expense of changing them later.

You may guess the end of this story. The USA never converted to metric, and no one was willing to spend the money to change them, so this short stretch of highway in the USA remains metric. I guess the plan seemed like a good idea at the time!

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Location: Green Valley, Arizona, USA
Weather: High 78ºF (26ºC) Low 52ºF (11ºC)
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