April 3, 2013



Bye-bye little Tracker - you've been a good girl

It is said that things happen for a reason - I believe this - but we'll be a while trying to figure out the reason this all happened.....

Today, being Michel's birthday (he's 63 now!) he was looking forward to spending a day or two in Denver, Colorado. Well, a couple of things happened that put a damper on our plans. Firstly, we missed our exit. Secondly, we took the next exit only to realize that it was the Airport exit. When we finally got going away from the Airport, we were on Hwy 25 North to Wyoming. So much for that plan.

That was only the tip of the iceberg...... as we were driving (on Hwy 25) a car pulls up beside us on Michel's side and he's waving his hand (fist) at Michel. We kind of looked at each other and shrugged. Don't know what that was about, we hadn't cut him off or anything.

THEN another car comes up beside us, only on my side this time, and he rolls his window down - he's yelling at me FIRE!! and pointing back to our car.......

Didn't take long to get off the highway.... and sure enough there was smoke billowing and a flames shooting out from behind each of the front tires, and now they are both flat.... Thank God for our fire extinguisher. Next a call to AAA and the rest of the day is shot!!! Spent the day at a Chevy dealer to learn that nobody can figure out how and why this happened, but their estimate came in at $3500.00. Needless to say - we said good bye to our Tracker - and we are now TOW-LESS. Come to think of it - we are totally car-less. The only vehicle we have now is the motorhome.