This is the trip report where the trip is the report.
06/15/2003
On my way up I got on the road around 8 PM. 5 min into the drive I hit the traffic jam from hell, and turned around and came back. Went home, left again at 10PM, same thing. I decided to stick it out. 1 hour later I went 3 miles, so I got off and took backroads around the ROAD CONSTRUCTION. Spent the night at my fathers house in LA.
06/16/2003
Up at 3:30 AM. Drive is great till I hit Primm. Traffic jam from hell. Fatal accident at 5:10 AM, it's 8AM now and the coroner has not yet arrived. I cross the median and go back to Primm and play BJ for 2 hours. Get back on the road again, same thing. This time I decide to stick it out. 1 hour later nothing. Back to Primm, this time turning around and driving the wrong way on the freeway for 2 miles (of course nothing has moved). Hours later I finally escape from Primm - but damage my car as I run over something around the site of the accident. 1/2 hour later my "check engine" light comes on.
06/17/03.
Take car to get oil changed and check light. They say it is nothing, and reset the "check engine" light.
06/18/03
Check engine light comes back on.
06/20/03
7:30 PM
I attempt to drive home -- I have a music gig on 06/21 I am supposed to play in. My car breaks down 30 miles north of Baker. A belt comes off, massive oil leak. I get a tow, arriving at Danny's garage around 10PM. He says it needs a new belt, and he will get one in the morning. Sleep in Hotel.
06/21/03
9AM
Call Danny, no belt yet, says to call back later.
11AM
Call Danny, no belt yet, says another hour.
Noon
I show up and wait. An hour later the belt arrives. He looks at the now obvious oil leak and says "oh, I didn't see that before -- this is big, I won't be able to look at it till tomorrow.
2PM
I hitchhike back to Las Vegas, my friends are still at the Palace St and they let me stay in their room.
06/22/03
10AM
Call Danny, he still hasn't looked at it.
11AM
Call wife in distress -- she says to rent a U-Haul and bring the car back on my own.
2:00PM
Rent U-Haul and leave Vegas second time. Get stuck at gas station after I wrap the trailer around one of the cement posts. Takes me 20 minutes to get it untangled. Enter huge traffic jam leaving Vegas south.
4:00PM
Arrive at Danny's. He charges me $72 as his "minimal service fee". Has not yet looked at the car. I see this distressed threesome, two hispanic females and a man. Joking, I say I am going to LA if they need a ride. It turns out they live in Ventura, which is 20 miles south of here, and would love a ride. The females are now my passengers.
4:30PM
Leave HELL (oops, I mean Danny's garage).
7:30PM
Stop at Victorville for gas ... yep 3 hours. Sunday evening f***ing traffic.
10:05PM
Get home.
My negative EV from transportation on this trip: -$480 and counting...
--Mayor
06/15/2003
On my way up I got on the road around 8 PM. 5 min into the drive I hit the traffic jam from hell, and turned around and came back. Went home, left again at 10PM, same thing. I decided to stick it out. 1 hour later I went 3 miles, so I got off and took backroads around the ROAD CONSTRUCTION. Spent the night at my fathers house in LA.
06/16/2003
Up at 3:30 AM. Drive is great till I hit Primm. Traffic jam from hell. Fatal accident at 5:10 AM, it's 8AM now and the coroner has not yet arrived. I cross the median and go back to Primm and play BJ for 2 hours. Get back on the road again, same thing. This time I decide to stick it out. 1 hour later nothing. Back to Primm, this time turning around and driving the wrong way on the freeway for 2 miles (of course nothing has moved). Hours later I finally escape from Primm - but damage my car as I run over something around the site of the accident. 1/2 hour later my "check engine" light comes on.
06/17/03.
Take car to get oil changed and check light. They say it is nothing, and reset the "check engine" light.
06/18/03
Check engine light comes back on.
06/20/03
7:30 PM
I attempt to drive home -- I have a music gig on 06/21 I am supposed to play in. My car breaks down 30 miles north of Baker. A belt comes off, massive oil leak. I get a tow, arriving at Danny's garage around 10PM. He says it needs a new belt, and he will get one in the morning. Sleep in Hotel.
06/21/03
9AM
Call Danny, no belt yet, says to call back later.
11AM
Call Danny, no belt yet, says another hour.
Noon
I show up and wait. An hour later the belt arrives. He looks at the now obvious oil leak and says "oh, I didn't see that before -- this is big, I won't be able to look at it till tomorrow.
2PM
I hitchhike back to Las Vegas, my friends are still at the Palace St and they let me stay in their room.
06/22/03
10AM
Call Danny, he still hasn't looked at it.
11AM
Call wife in distress -- she says to rent a U-Haul and bring the car back on my own.
2:00PM
Rent U-Haul and leave Vegas second time. Get stuck at gas station after I wrap the trailer around one of the cement posts. Takes me 20 minutes to get it untangled. Enter huge traffic jam leaving Vegas south.
4:00PM
Arrive at Danny's. He charges me $72 as his "minimal service fee". Has not yet looked at the car. I see this distressed threesome, two hispanic females and a man. Joking, I say I am going to LA if they need a ride. It turns out they live in Ventura, which is 20 miles south of here, and would love a ride. The females are now my passengers.
4:30PM
Leave HELL (oops, I mean Danny's garage).
7:30PM
Stop at Victorville for gas ... yep 3 hours. Sunday evening f***ing traffic.
10:05PM
Get home.
My negative EV from transportation on this trip: -$480 and counting...
--Mayor