Planes flew overhead from early morning but we slept through
most of it. Woke late but not too late
to go down for brekkie, cereal and toast so not too flash but we got a cup of
tea – there are no hot drink facilities in our room. It’s a bit rundown and in need of some TLC
but we are on the ground floor with a carpark right outside so easy to unload
the car.
Yesterday we got diesel at a local Exxon service station,
the same one we had used to fill the rental car a couple of days back. The pump
locked off at $100 which is a higher value than most, often the max is $75. We still needed more diesel to fill it to the
brim but the’ pay at pump’ would not accept my card again. So a visit inside to the cashier is the obvious
next step. But the card still does not
let us buy more diesel, it’s now in the too hard basket so we bail. A little later in the day I see I have a
missed call, a txt and an email from the Bank of America Fraud Office – WTF??
Apparently a forecourt sale of $100 is
unusual and is often fraudulent so the Bank wanted to get in touch to make sure
those were our transactions. Because
they were weird I txt back not accepted and the bank then cancelled my
card. To be fair they routed me through
to phoning the fraud office and I spoke with a charming young lady who sorted
it all out for us and reinstated my card.
Thank goodness - I will no doubt need to go shopping tomorrow!!
We get a final visit to Walmart, want to buy a padlock so we
can make sure the coach stays plugged into the power box while we are
away. So we go back to UHaul to fit the
lock and say another sad farewell to our faithful friend who has once again safely
delivered us more than 6,370 miles over the last five and a half months : (
Next stop is De Montrond to hand the keys and gate clicker
to Andrew who is our second point of contact at UHaul and who will visit to
make sure all is as it should be while we are gone.
Starbucks for coffee, Willowbrook Mall for lunch (yum Cinnabon) and
shopping then back to the hotel for a rest, it’s been another big day!
After a rest and a wine (it’s now nearly 8pm) we are ready
to go eat and find a Good Eats Restaurant nearby, about 4 miles away. It looks busy when we rock up so that is a
good sign. We are seated straight away
and start with their signature margarita – Eatsarita Rocks!! And it was large and very good – happy
face! The food following was also good
and this place is definitely worthy of another visit in the future.
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