May 9: Waiting for Mechanic

Making a Friday appointment with a mechanic in Alamosa was good for nothing ... he's been out of town for five hours and is still hours from leaving where he is ... which is 45 miles away. So I sit in a Walmart parking lot. Frustrated. Had I known, I would have found someone in another town. I could have tried if he'd kept me posted about his real ETA, but now that it's 3pm on a Friday, I'm stuck. If you hear a scream, it's because I'll be stuck here all weekend.

The drive out of the spa was not as bad as I'd feared. Karmalita still had reduced engine power on steep or long inclines, but usually got power back on the downhill, so I maintained 60mph for maybe half the 93 miles.

The views are so much better than these pictures.