{"id":10676,"date":"2020-09-03T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2020-09-06T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T22:19:03","slug":"sep-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/09\/03\/sep-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sep 3 City Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most cities are the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Cooper Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I just finished my trip to the big city it took 8 hours.
\nI went to Costco got my golf cart batteries. It was the least expensive place to go to.<\/p>\n

I phoned ahead they had 25 of them. The only problem, when I got there after a two-hour drive, they couldn’t find them.<\/p>\n

I was told to come back in a half-hour.
\nI shopped for a few staples and checked back at the battery isle. Just then a long cart approached with 4 shiny new heavy batteries.<\/p>\n

I dreaded the idea of lifting those into the van. I paid for my stuff. A few bags of cat food, cases of canned food some cereal, and some fresh blueberries. I headed out to poor old Gracie and loaded the food and one battery.<\/p>\n

Then I saw right next to me a large young Costco employee. I pointed to the three batteries left in the cart. He was happy to help. He made it look like the batteries were made of feathers. The one I lifted was definitely all lead. And gravity was a lot stronger where I was standing.<\/p>\n

I had run on empty getting to Costco. I had gas in a can at the back. I would have been ok. Except if I ran out in heavy traffic.<\/p>\n

As I was starting out of my parking space to go to the gas bar. I ran out of gas. No problem I had a little can. After I poured that in I started her up and got to the gas pump.<\/p>\n

I stopped at a Honda dealer for a small part for my generator. I was expecting to pay a huge price and was very happy to hear that the part was going to be under 20 even with postage. I explained I lived Two hours away.<\/p>\n

With all that accomplished I made the drive home. Unloaded what I could. Now I am resting. Tired out after walking all day. My phone says I walked 3400 steps.<\/p>\n

It felt like I did ten thousand. Long gone are the record-breaking mile and a half sprints I did when I was in the Navy.<\/p>\n

I am happy to be back home but I needed to go out again tomorrow. I needed to pick up my water pump, so I could transfer the water inside to the new tank. One step closer to having running water, that I didn’t have to run and fetch.<\/p>\n

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